'Terrism' Inc.

[ChrisD(RJ)]

Chip wrote:
On the other hand, a number of relatively cautious scholars of new religious
movements who abhor phrases like "religious fanatics" have studied AlQ and
the Taliban for many years and reached exactly the opposite conclusions that
you articulate, mostly centered around the idea of the re-establishing of a
regional pan-Islamic Caliphate.

They don't want world domination (artful overstatement) but they do seem to
want to topple governments in the region they deem "un-Islamic."

I write:
By the way, this is the reason the Kremlin has been so in favor of the US
actions. There are radical Islamic movements who want to establish
theocracies in most of the Central Asian countries, and are fond of blowing
stuff up. And of course there is the Chechnya situation. The Kremlin has
been telling the US for years that the No. 1 threat is Islamist terrorism.

The Northern Alliance is a Russian proxy army, many members of which are
actually former Afghan communists.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal