Most Pakistanis in the US are pro-Taliban so presumably the ones in Pakistan are even more pro-Taliban!
I am disappointed in Pakistan. It started from the same point as India with the same history, same form of government, same basic culture, same economy, etc. The only difference was religion. Yet look at where Pakistan is today and where India is. Pakistan has the same potential as India yet is squandering it.
There simply is not much Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, etc. terrorism. Almost all the terrorism in the world, and probably 99% of religious terrorism, is Islamic. This is because for years children have been taught that they will go to heaven if they wage "jihad" and kill people among many Muslims, especially since Saudi Arabia began exporting this ideology to every corner of the globe. Why do you think suicide bombing suddenly became so common among Muslims in the past 25 years when it never occurred during the previous 1,300 years?
There is extremism in all religions but not all extremists are the same. Christian fundamentalists in the US want the 10 commandments posted in government buildings, a prayer to open the day in schools, a ban on abortion, and a ban or strict controls of pornography. Compare that to the agenda of Islamists! Which is more dangerous? Islamists are more akin to Nazis imo.
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and calls him/herself a muslim and blows himself up
he is not a muslim
a muslim cannot kill innocent people
if that still happens then 1 1/2 billion musliims on this planet should they account for few nuts?
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Read this forum. A significant minority of this board is Islamist and pro-terrorism.
Note that I always refer to "Islamists" or "Islamism", not Islam. I am talking about that minority, albeit a big minority, not Muslims in general when it comes to terrorism.
However, it is not just a few nuts when it comes to things like gender inequality and persecution of religious minorities. The former is a majority view in some Muslim countries while the latter is almost universally accepted.
Let me put it this way, if I were born in the 1930's I would have the same fear of Nazism as I do today of Islamism. They are similar ideologies although one is racial and the other religiously cloaked.