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| Beirut Daily Star sez radical Islam partially due to Kuwaiti government |
| 2005-02-16 |
| Kuwait is facing its most crucial test since liberation from the Iraqi invasion in 1991. From militant attacks on U.S. military personnel during the build-up to the war on Iraq to the latest arrest of extremists in January, which revealed plans to target state security agency headquarters and oil facilities, the extremists appear to be executing an agenda of taking Kuwait down the road to instability. It is not surprising that terrorism, which has plagued Saudi Arabia recently, has also reared its ugly head in Kuwait. In fact, Kuwait has inherent conditions that encourage terrorism - not just the presence of 30,000 U.S. troops on its soil or its geographic proximity to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, but also the influence of Islamists in Kuwaiti society and the Parliament. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Whenever religious clerics get to amass military power, they will use it. The neat aspect of jihadism is that clerics get to employ this military power - in the form of terrorist attacks - without being held responsible, from a legal standpoint, for it. Their defense is that they are, after all, only engaging in political advocacy. That's the great part about being the "political wing" of jihadist movements - you can order assassinations and mass murder without being held accountable. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-02-16 10:32:36 AM |
| #1 Extremism in Kuwait is partly the government’s own making. In establishing radical religious movements to counter liberals demanding democracy, the government gave teeth to Islamists ya think? The only thing surprising about that comment was that it made it into print. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-02-16 8:18:04 AM |