> What makes the message of conservative [Islamic] movements especially compelling ... is that they articulate the fundamental anger of many British Muslims that more mainstream movements seem incapable or unwilling to discuss.>
> That anger stems not merely from unhappiness with the situation >of Muslims in Britain, but also solidarity with what they see as >the aggressive and unjust treatment of Muslims abroad, and not >least from Britain's part in the war in Iraq.>
Surely, Iraqis are not being oppressed because they are muslims. Why do they believe that _muslims_ are being oppressed everywhere?
Pakistani jihadi groups are also angry about Indian treatment of Kashmiri, Chinese treatment of Uighurs and Russian treatment of Chechens.(When Musharraf visited Beijing last year, Chinese leaders told him about Uighur terrorists infiltrating Xinjiang from Pakistan.) Why their struggle against injustice is not based on secular ideologies and why do they resort to terrorism?
The reality is that Pakistanis have been denied elementary political rights in Pakistan itself, since Pakistan has been ruled by the military over long period. They don't think it's necessary to do anything about it?
Ulhas