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Posts about Extremists / Terrorists written by mzubairqamar

(© Zubair Qamar 2013) Ahmed Rashid, the well known journalist and author of the book, “Taliban,” among other books, was told the

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Posts about Political Ideology written by mzubairqamar

(© Zubair Qamar 2013) Exaggerating “Ideology” The “ideological” dimension has been exaggerated by many so-called counter-terrorism experts. For example, Patrick Sookhdeo in Fighting the Ideological War says, “Western discourse must discredit arg

Posts about Miscellaneous written by mzubairqamar

(© Zubair Qamar 2013) A July 2012 study that examined the most frequently cited or quoted verses in the Qur’an from over 2,000 extremist texts from 1998 to 2011 in the Center for Strategic Communication’s database concluded that “…verses extremi

(© Zubair Qamar 2013) Sebastian Gorka of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says, “One of the greatest -- self-induced -- obstacles we have to understanding our enemy is mirror imaging, seeing Islam as just one more religion like the reli

(© Zubair Qamar 2013) Does Today’s “Islamic State” Mimic the Early Muslims To demonstrate that Islamism today is not rooted in classical Sunni tradition, one can examine the nature of the “Islamic State” today in its various forms. These “Islam