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Originally Posted by mmarsh I simply don't understand members of the far right sometimes...
For all their huffing and puffing about the dangers of Islamic facism in places like Iraq and Iran they play willfully blind to places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan which is the absolute heart of Islamic Terrorism. A recent poll I saw, 46% of the population in Pakistan supports Osama bin Laden.
Bhutto is openly pro west, believes in tolerance and has always opposed Radicalism. She would be the ideal leader. But instead we suck up to a unelected military dictator who is playing both sides (the US and the Terrorists) against each other.
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I believe that here it is recognised that Saudi and Pakistan are at the core. But how to deal with it? Will all the problems fade with the oil production?
I understand that in the middle east the eventual crisis will be over water supply.
And I have to say that a very high proportion of our own muslim population have similiar views to the Saudis and Pakistanis, to a lesser or larger degree, in that there is wide support for their aims, if not necessarily for their methods.
I agree re. Bhutto, but I see the president as a man stuck between a rock and a hard place, using the military to curb the Islamist threat as far as possible, and hoping to find a solution with the re-introduction of Bhutto. I cannot see him as the villain of the piece.