al Queda, Modernization = Westernization
A member of Representative Jack Kingston’s Staff, “milipundit,” chimes in over at Jacks Blog on the terrorist attacks in India:
Past acts of terror within India have, for the most part, been limited to rural, sparsely populated areas of the country. Yesterday’s bombings may signal either a shift in strategies by those that have carried out terrorist acts in the past, or a show of force by a group with different ideologies and motivations.
That alone, was an extremely interesting insight reported by no one in the dead tree media. However, there was an extremely keen insight that this Staff College instructor had not yet considered:
“Modernization and Islam do not make good bedfellows. For those that subscribe to a jihadi ideology, modernization equals westernization. Westernization equals former colonial-imperialists-infidels. The fact that India has become one of the fastest growing economies in the world does not bode well for those that want nothing more than an Islamic Empire rather than an India with a liberal political-economy.”
Looks like I will be using that bit of insight when I teach next week. Great job, milipundit!!
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