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Even the most modern and westernized leaders, ranging from Harvard-educated Benazir Bhutto to self-professed Ataturk fan Pervez Musharraf, have failed to stop Pakistan from descending farther into an Islamist quagmire.
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― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
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The transmogrification of Islam into Islamism is bad news not only for the West but also for the majority of Muslims who have no desire to live in totalitarian theocracies. “For the West it is but a physical threat in the form of terrorism,” said Pakistani journalist Ayaz Amir. “For the world of Islam . . . to be trapped in bin Ladenism is to travel back in time to the dark ages of Muslim obscurantism. It means to be stuck in the mire which has held the Islamic world back.
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― The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
― The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
