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August 01, 2005
Hamdani: Egypt is Where Islamic Revival, Radical Islam Started
Pakistan Tribune columnist Yasser Latif Hamdani argues in an August 1, 2005 news analysis that: The rise of organizations like Hizbut Tahrir and Al Muhajiroun in the United Kingdom and elsewhere was viewed with alarm but no solid intellectual movement was organized within the Islamic sphere to counter them. Their connection to seminaries in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar was also to be expected. Most British Muslims happen to be of South Asian origin and we as Pakistanis had allowed the American sponsored Jehad against Godless Soviet Russia to flourish from our heartland. So London bombing and the connection to Pakistan was logical. However what was not logical was that the Egyptian government would turn around and blame the terror attacks on its soil on Pakistan as well.
He added: "It would therefore be worthwhile to dwell on the history of Islamic revival and radical Islamism in the Muslim world" because "Egypt is where it all started as early as 1928."
See "Egypt's homegrown terrorists" for more of Mr. Hamdani's insightful analysis
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 1, 2005 11:04 PM
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