Islamization of the Islamists

Submitted by Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai (India), May 25, 2010 at 10:14

Ian Johnson's account of how 'Islamists' were available for use and abuse by the US and allies in their different phases of choosing of the 'current enemy' and to find allies to confront those enemies, roundly lays the blame for the making of Islamists on the US and its allies itself. Muslims were always there on the face of the earth during past centuries. It is how the West, for its own convoluted strategies to conquer and subjugate other countries, be that during colonial era and later, that Muslim were purposely and deliberately used and abused to carry out their 'assigned' role. Yesterday's allies in Afghanistan became today's enemies. A change of world kaleidoscope can once again bring a change in the relationship. Yesterday's enemies may become friends. Islamists, if they have to follow western strategies, should now find their own enemy and try to bring the West under their camp and demonize that enemy as common enemy. I find a candidate that is on the horizon, that with its own folly will fill up that role of the enemy of the Muslims as well as the West.

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