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...aspects of U.S. foreign policy—in particular our support of fundamentalist guerilla fighters in Afghanistan during their war with the Soviet Union and tolerance of the extreme interpretation of Islam being taught by Wahhabism-based schools in Saudi Arabia—contributed to the development of radical Islamist sentiments throughout the Muslim world. It is clear that in encouraging pan-Islamism to exorcize the Soviet demon, we helped create the Islamist demon of today...
...knew him in Cairo insist that Atta had shown nothing but disdain for the radical Islamist movement...
...politics and religion, Atta's opinions had been mainstream Egyptian middle class - strongly critical of Israel, but also strongly critical of the Islamist extremism that had taken hold of sections of Egyptian society over the past two decades. "When students on campus would discuss the activities of the Islamic groups who were active on campus and in the student union," says Khalifa, "he would object to their activities from A-Z. He was against them and what they stood for. He was a person who always held a position in the center. He hated extremism. He knew...
...Pakistan may be in an even more precarious position, with a strong domestic Islamist constituency denouncing the military government's decision to support U.S. action and threatening to retaliate. Still, Pakistan remains the key ally in efforts to get Bin Laden, because of the deep involvement of its intelligence agency in the affairs of the Taliban. While intelligence cooperation from Pakistan remains the West's best bet for striking directly at Bin Laden, sensitivity to the fragility of the regime of general-turned-president Pervez Musharraf appears to have persuaded the U.S. not to ask for much in terms...
...years later, Haddad reports, Islamist sympathy is below 10%. What happened? The new immigrants became more comfortable with the language and the culture around them. They realized that unlike many of their homelands, one could express political or cultural opposition here and still be regarded as a good American. And finally, they gave birth to a generation, now in its 20s and 30s, whose primary identification is American, albeit with a "Muslim" prefix. "The feeling is," paraphrases Haddad (who is not Muslim), "'We are American. We participate in this America. We cannot live off America and not be part...