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Compiled by Aman Quadri
US senator finds ISI-Taliban ties 'troubling'
When the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan was overenthusiastically claimed and propagated by local Islamists as 'Islam's victory over atheism,' it was conveniently forgotten that the mujahiddin would have remained to be nothing more than a dusty army of ill-equipped rag-tags, had the American CIA (with covert support from Israel's staunchly anti-Soviet intelligence agencies); along with the Pakistani ISI and Saudi Arabia, not been so generous in dishing out billions of dollars worth of arms and training. Basking in the glory of jihad's victory and mindlessly buying into the notion that they alone had defeated the atheistic enemy, a wave of euphoria ran wild across the Islamist milieu; a belief that they were capable of imposing 'Islamic regimes' anywhere they wanted to. -- Nadeem F. Paracha
America may have developed Intervention Fatigue, but are we really considering throwing Afghan women back into the darkness after their return to freedom?
As a result of the meeting, the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey was founded, bringing together an international team of experts working under the sponsorship of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Dr King was made its academic director and Peter Hellyer the executive director. Dr King has documented the latest study, the fruit of more than a decade of fieldwork with his colleagues, in The Historical Mosque Tradition of the Coasts of Abu Dhabi, a book published by the National Centre for Documentation and Research, the organisation charged with acting as "the nation's memory". In all, the book records 45 mosques, some of which are documented for the first time, ranging from simple stone outlines to complete buildings, on 14 islands. -- 
This is the new face of al-Qaeda: out go the beards, Arab robes and backdrops from Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine; income dark suits and sixth-former curtains that look like they're covered in a layer of grease. ... But the biggest attraction, for teenage boys at least, is Wahhabism's puritanical view of sex. Teenage boys are obsessed by sex. But the pursuit of sex often makes them unhappy, angry and frustrated, and this is aggravated in a culture where sex is everywhere and where, it seems, everyone else is at it. In a world where sex has become cheap and meaningless, and where women are encouraged to see themselves as fit only to be some gangster's bitch or this month's Katie Price, some of the more thoughtful men yearn to idolise and idealise them as wife material (there have been puritanical youth culture movements in the past, such as the Straight Edge scene that emerged in the early 80s in California). As youth culture has become raunchier, the danger of this reaction has strengthened. Most of all teenagers yearn for idealism. To people growing up in Germany radical Islam is both sufficiently non-European (indeed, anti-European) while also having the manly and moral qualities of strength and brotherhood that attract drifting young men, who in the past might have opted for Nazism and Communism. And, most of all, it's the ultimate rebellion. - 
Whatever Our Path to God, We Share the Ultimate Goal
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