Dengan terbunuhnya Bin Laden maka tidak ada lagi alasan Amerika untuk terus
berada di Afghanistan dan saya yakin Obama akan segera datang dengan exit
strategynya dari Afghanistan.
Juga dari Iraq.
Akan halnya orang Islam - dan bukan saja di Pakistan - yang selama ini
berpaling ke syariah karena tidak adanya "good governance" di negeri mereka,
ternyata mulai sadar akan kesalahan mereka. Ini terlihat dengan dituntutnya
demokrasi, freddom, keadilan dan lowongan kerja oleh orang Islam di Timur
Tengah dan Afrika Utara.
Ada satu sebab kenapa orang Islam, juga di Pakistan, berpaling ke al-Qaeda:
berlarut-larutnya masaalah Palestina.
Dan penyebab inipun, menurut dugaan saya akan hilang, karena Obama, atau
siapapun yang akan menggantikannnya kalau dia tidak terpilih lagi, saya yakin,
akan berusaha keras untuk menyelesaikan masaalah Palestina ini, saat
perkembangan di Timur Tengan dan Afrika Utara memungkinkan untuk menekan Israel
buat mencari jalan damai.
Jelasnya: saya yakin bahwa baik di Pakistan maupun di berbagai negeri lain,
al-Qaeda dan gerakan fundementalis lain akan mati dengan sendirinya.
Dan dibalik itu kecerdasan dan kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan makin memurukkan dan
membenamkan ajaran taik anjing Islam itu kedasar laut.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- As the death of Osama bin Laden reverberates
around the world, the root causes of extremism are apparently largely being
ignored.
But the goals that need to be achieved in Pakistan and Afghanistan in order to
turn people away from the lure of al Qaeda extremism will take time.
"The U.S. presence is acting as a rallying cry for these people," said
political analyst Aasiya Riaz. "You'll talk to many people who say things will
not change in the region until the United States picks up and leaves."
Riaz, a member of the Pakistan Institute for Political Development and
Transparency -- an Islamabad-based think tank -- said violent jihad has also
been injected into this region's culture and is viewed as an effective strategy
against oppression.
Ironically, it was the U.S. that paid for and supported extremist militants
during the 1980s Afghan jihad against the Soviet invasion.
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The U.S. now rejects those extremists, but many suspect Pakistan's spy agencies
still maintain links to Islamist militants and plan to use those links to hold
sway in Afghanistan once U.S. troops pull out.
Pakistan denies this, but skeptics say Islamabad's deeds do not match its words.
Tahira Abdullah, a human rights activist in Islamabad, said extremist ideology
in Pakistan and Afghanistan is made possible by the crushing poverty, and
governments which have failed to provide the most basic human needs, like
shelter, security and a basic education.
"It's the lack of democracy," Abdullah said. "It's the lack of development.
It's the lack of opportunities."
Studies by the United Nations' aid agencies show nearly half of the adult
population in Pakistan is illiterate and earns less than $2 a day.
"Bin Laden was a symbol and an illustration of a mind-set and an ideology that
lives on," Abdullah said.
Terrorism experts and sociologists have long rejected poverty and bad
governance as the sole prerequisites to religious extremism.
They cite countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh as examples of
developing Muslim countries that are not facing widespread religious extremism.
So what makes Pakistan and Afghanistan different?
Analysts say in Pakistan and Afghanistan there is also the powerful perception
that the U.S. is waging war with Islam. The perception is intensified by almost
10 years of U.S.-led military occupation in Afghanistan, where thousands of
civilians -- who had little to do with al Qaeda or the Taliban -- have been
killed.
The Pakistani security establishment's decisive break with all militant groups,
U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and better governance -- achieving these
objectives will be a painstaking and complicated process that will take time,
but they could be the real keys in the fight against terrorism in this region,
far more so than the death of one man.
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