10-15-2009, 08:39 PM
Interesting read from Paki fora. Enjoy it
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The good thing is that ranks of the apologist and sympathizers goes down with the increase in such attacks. No militancy has ever succeeded without the support of the people among which it operates. Islam would not have expanded as it did if it was not for the support of the people in the lands conquered by Muslims. In many cases it were the people who invited Muslim armies to come because they brought with them order, peace, justice and prosperity. The vision, propogated by the west, of Muslim hoardes coming out of the desert with a sword in one hand and Quran in the other is historically incorrect. In Swat, the people initially invited and welcomed the taliban but in return they got beheadings, plunder, fear and brutality resulting failure of the militancy. They keep on making the same mistakes again and again. They did it in Aghanistan, in Iraq and they are doing it in Pakistan and they will fail because of it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The good thing is that ranks of the apologist and sympathizers goes down with the increase in such attacks. No militancy has ever succeeded without the support of the people among which it operates. Islam would not have expanded as it did if it was not for the support of the people in the lands conquered by Muslims. In many cases it were the people who invited Muslim armies to come because they brought with them order, peace, justice and prosperity. The vision, propogated by the west, of Muslim hoardes coming out of the desert with a sword in one hand and Quran in the other is historically incorrect. In Swat, the people initially invited and welcomed the taliban but in return they got beheadings, plunder, fear and brutality resulting failure of the militancy. They keep on making the same mistakes again and again. They did it in Aghanistan, in Iraq and they are doing it in Pakistan and they will fail because of it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->