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Why Pakistan Produces Jihadists

By SADANAND DHUME
Posted: May 5, 2010.

Print: Wall Street Journal

excerpt:

> Pakistan was carved out of the Muslim-majority areas of British India
> in 1947, the world’s first modern nation based solely on Islam. The
> country’s name means “Land of the Pure.” The capital city is Islamabad.
> The national flag carries the Islamic crescent and star…
> > From the start, the new country was touched by the messianic zeal of
> pan-Islamism… Through alternating periods of civilian and military
> rule, one thing about Pakistan has remained constant—the central place
> of Islam in national life.

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The Pakistan secret police are very powerful and wealthy. They have been in a low level war with India since their inception.  They receive funding and moral support from the rest of the Islamic world.  The Taliban was their creation (India supported the Northern Alliance) and they created and have exported technology for the first Islamic atomic weapon.  The Pakistani government is corrupt and hated but is the only thing standing in the way of even bigger troubles.

posted on May 11, 2010
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this will make our industrial military complex very happy indeed. $$$$$$$$$$$

the more terrorists the more fear the more $$$$$$$$ for the american war machine.

terrorists have been a gift to the american industrial military complex.

posted on May 29, 2010
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Liza  Is this for war?

posted on June 6, 2010
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