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...many ways, bin Laden's story is like that of many other Muslim extremists. There's the fanatical religiosity and the intemperate interpretation of Islam; the outrage over the dominance, particularly in the Arab world, of a secular, decadent U.S.; the indignation over U.S. support for Israel; the sense of grievance over the perceived humiliations of the Arab people at the hands of the West...
...attacks on Afghan territory, the people of Peshawar are torn: on the one hand, they don't want to be isolated in the eyes of the international coalition against terrorism. On the other, many interpret U.S. actions as a hostile "crusade" against Islam in general. And so the secular-religious split at the heart of Pakistan manifests itself in the conversation of people on the streets and in the bazaars, who express horror at the deaths of thousands in World Trade Center, but in the next breath suggest it was all a cynical plot by Mossad to gain sympathy...
...movement spread across India to Afghanistan and into Central Asia where Russia was taking over the Muslim Khanates. Deobandi scholars were involved in the anti-colonial struggle for India's independence. After India and Pakistan achieved their independence in 1947, the Deobandis switched their political focus to the "secular" governments that took Britain's place. They sought to ensure Muslim rights were protected...
...they were hanging in Florida strip clubs it raises some questions. Maybe Bin Laden's reach extends beyond religious zealots or even those posing as religious zealots to those who are not religious in any traditional sense. Maybe this means that Bin Laden has joined forced with secular terrorists like the kind we saw in the 70s, hijackers who didn't invoke the Koran or the name of God but used the leftist rhetoric of the time. (Remember the Munich Olympics in 1972? I don't think the Koran ever got mentioned as Black September terrorists held and eventually slaughtered...
...racism after U.S. and Israeli delegates walked out - Jewish activists say they have begun to wield more influence. "The French leadership now sees us as its natural partner and turns to us to represent the interest of French Jews," says Haim Musicant, director of crif, an umbrella organization of secular French Jewish groups...