Pakistan: Asia's Islamism Engine -Greg Sheridan
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has suggested appointing a special presidential negotiator on Kashmir. This is a very dangerous move indeed.
In light of the Mumbai attacks it would be a pure political reward for terror outrages. The message such a move would send would be: You murder enough civilians and we'll start making concessions.
As the epicenter of global terrorism shifts from the Middle East to South Asia, you can see the effort to transform the Kashmir dispute [between India & Pakistan] into the equivalent of the Palestinian dispute; that is, the fountainhead, all-purpose grievance that can be used to explain, if not justify, every act of Islamist butchery and murder in the region.
(The Australian)
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has suggested appointing a special presidential negotiator on Kashmir. This is a very dangerous move indeed.
In light of the Mumbai attacks it would be a pure political reward for terror outrages. The message such a move would send would be: You murder enough civilians and we'll start making concessions.
As the epicenter of global terrorism shifts from the Middle East to South Asia, you can see the effort to transform the Kashmir dispute [between India & Pakistan] into the equivalent of the Palestinian dispute; that is, the fountainhead, all-purpose grievance that can be used to explain, if not justify, every act of Islamist butchery and murder in the region.
(The Australian)
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