Wherever the religion-oriented state obtains political power in a Muslim country , the political Islam grows and the social Islam declines. For example, compare Iran with Eygpt: in Iran the state is religious, so the social Islam is failing fast and the political Islam is increasingly growing; but in Egypt the social Islam is powerful and ...
Similarly, in Afghanistan a religious state had arraived on the scene and hence was not capable of chaining many minds. Therefore, it is not surprisng , as Karl Carlile writes, that " [i]n Afghanistan there has been a virtual absence of popular protest against the attack on the Taliban." But Pakistan has a very poweful social Islam and, again, it is not surprising that "there has been more support from elements within the Pashtun community within Pakistan...." I think that this issue has not to do with racial and tribial causes. When a religious state arraives the political scene, the social base of Islam in that country is weakened. Regards, Mohammad Maljoo >From: "Karl Carlile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Communism List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:22071] Taliban Support >Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:51:17 -0000 > >Prominent radical cleric, Maulana Samiul Haq, head of the 35-party >pro-Taliban Pakistan-Afghanistan Defence Council, told the crowd Muslims >would continue to wage jihad against non-Muslims in places such as >Chechnya, Palestine and Afghanistan. > >"Afghanistan is our backbone. Why can't we fight jihad in Afghanistan?" >Haq asked the crowd. "The Taliban have lost in Afghanistan but we are >not disappointed nor discouraged," Haq said as the crowd chanted slogans >in support of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and bin >Laden. > >Several senior Taliban leaders graduated from Haq's madrassa near >Peshawar. (MER) > >It is interesting that the Taliban appear to have had a strongers social >base in Pakistan than in Afghanistan. There has been more popular >protest and resistance concerning imperialist aggression in Afghanistan >against the Taliban than in Afghanistan itself. > >In Afghanistan there has been a virtual absence of popular protest >against the attack on the Taliban. >It is extraordinary that there has been more support from elements >within the Pashtun community within Pakistan while virtually none in >Afghanistan. Recent events in Afghanistan have had a rather >extraordinary character. It is clear that little of the story has been >made accessible to the public. In many ways the war itself and related >events has unfolded in intended secrecy. > >Regards >Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group) >Be free to join our communism mailing list >at http://homepage.eircom.net/~kampf/ > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
