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by arifsali Yesterday 3:36 PM

It is tempting, in a world supposedly caught in a clash of civilizations, to think that the only way to survive is to have the Kardzics in your corner, fighting to protect people who look like you, talk like you, pray like you. That is certainly what the young Serbian men who burned flags and threw bottles in defense of Karadzic believe. The logic essentially goes like this: “He’s a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch. And in a world of sons-of-bitches, you better have the toughest son-of-a-bitch in your corner.” That’s misdirected rage talking, not reason. Misdirected rage applauds “our” murderers, believes they are necessary. It not only thinks the clash of civilizations is real, it needs the clash of civilizations to justify support of its murderers.

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POPS Taboos About Sex Hinder Efforts to Fight AIDS in Pakistan, Study Says

by arifsali 7-22-2008

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POPS Electric Motorbike from Pakistan

by arifsali 7-18-2008

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POPS Say No To Terrorism

by arifsali 7-12-2008

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POPS The dilemma of anti-extremist Pakistanis

by arifsali 7-1-2008

The whole piece is worth reading.

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POPS Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost

by arifsali 6-22-2008

Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: where the West has gone wrong in the war in Central Asia

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POPS Pakistani sentenced to die for blasphemy

by arifsali 6-18-2008

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POPS Students rusticated due to religious bias

by arifsali 6-14-2008

Pakistan. Shameful

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POPS Female Workers Break Stereotypes in Karachi

by arifsali 6-6-2008

Pakistan

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POPS Pakistani boy 'killed by teacher'

by arifsali 5-30-2008

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POPS Meeting Pakistan's most feared militant

by arifsali 5-28-2008

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POPS Top Pakistani band to rock for peace in Kashmir

by arifsali 5-24-2008

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POPS In Pakistan, a dark trade comes to light

by arifsali 5-19-2008

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POPS Pakistani Fashion

by arifsali 5-4-2008

What the hec, these are gorgeous! More at the source.

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POPS Turkish schools offer Pakistan a gentler Islam

by arifsali 5-3-2008

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POPS Profile: Sami al-Hajj

by arifsali 5-1-2008

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POPS India opens up to Pakistan film

by arifsali 4-4-2008

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POPS Muslim nations raise status of science

by arifsali 4-2-2008

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POPS 'Food' struggles in Pak/Afghanistan

by arifsali 2-27-2008

Two different sources pointing to the same problem.

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POPS Pakistan and Israel

by arifsali 2-27-2008

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POPS Pakistani School System Highlights Wealth Gap

by arifsali 2-25-2008

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POPS Pakistanis Turn Against Bin Laden

by arifsali 2-10-2008

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POPS Militant groups slip from Pakistan's control

by arifsali 1-15-2008

Say, know someone else who ran into the same problem? ;)

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POPS One day in Pakistan: Views and news

by arifsali 12-21-2007

Things appear to be pretty messed up in Pakistan (more so from the lenses of western media of course) but I applaud BBC for conducting such interviews with local residents.

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POPS Renowned Pakistani Artist Guljee

by arifsali 12-19-2007

I'm also clipping from the blog where he has recently given a lengthy interview. Sad and tragic loss.

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POPS One day in Pakistan: Send in questions

by arifsali 12-14-2007

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POPS Tariq Ramadan: Come back to Islam, come back to Justice, please!

by arifsali 11-29-2007

while a British teacher is jailed because her students decided to name a teddy bear “Muhammad”! Where are we heading?

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POPS It is proper to challenge Islam - By Jemima Khan

by arifsali 11-26-2007

Jemima Khan is a former Jew who converted to Islam when she married sportsman turned politician Imran Khan in Pakistan (they're now separated).

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POPS Journalists protest in Pakistan

by arifsali 11-20-2007

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POPS Musharraf Cartoons...Hot off the Press

by arifsali 11-19-2007

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POPS Pakistan's problems start at the top

by arifsali 11-19-2007

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POPS Media serving global corporations by waging battles for people’s minds

by arifsali 11-3-2007

This is from the other side of the world but it is very much relevant in the West as well, in fact, more so than in the East. And yes, Thom Hartmann would agree with him.

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POPS Extremism and terrorism in Pakistan

by arifsali 10-27-2007

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POPS Benazir must take responsibility for blast deaths: Niece

by arifsali 10-21-2007

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POPS Bombing Turns Bhutto's Triumph to Horror

by arifsali 10-18-2007

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POPS Christian freed after a year: he was innocent.

by arifsali 10-4-2007

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