--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> Yes, I agree. What is frequently not realised in
> discussions about "political Islam" is that vast
> majority of muslims live outside West Asia and North
> Africa. Muslims are largely concentrated in South
> Asia (450 million), Indonesia (200 million),
> Nigeria, Russia etc and their politics is not mainly
> determined by issues like Palestine or Lebanon.
>
> Ulhas
>
>
I think people (in the West) tend to be very Israel- and Middle East-centric.
Israel/Palestine is actually not a very big conflict by world standards. I do not think Islamists in Uzbekistan are motivated primarily out of concern over Palestine/Israel.
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