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eridani

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Thu Aug-02-07 11:50 PM
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46. Surprised that nobody has mentioned the extensive US role in funding the fundies

Plenty of your taxpayer dollars went through the ISI in the 80s precisely to fund bin Laden allies and to promote Wahabi fundamentalism. Textbooks advocating violent jihad were made in the USA and distributed all over Afghanistan.

http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3453

Complaining about the rise of fundamentalism in Pakistan while ignoring our own government's role in promoting it seems unfair to me.

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