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The authors demonstrate that the hatred Islamists have for one another at times exceeds their hatred against the infidels; nonetheless, there should be no easy alliance seen between Al Qaeda and the Taliban according to the authors.

Numerous works were translated in full as documentation for their author's efforts. For the Arab World, the death of Nasser in 1970 signaled a watershed. The 1967 defeat of the Arabs at the hands of Israel resulted in that a alarming number of people, especially youth, returned to their original identity, that of members of an Islamist civilization.

In contrast, the underlying dynamics of politics and power in Afghanistan, particularly in the south and the east of the country, has been characterized by a rural-urban dichotomy. Most education in Afghanistan was directed by Pakistani leaders: Deobandi. In the 1980s jihadist sympathies arrived for these followers as well. There was a generational difference between the older Al Qaeda types and the younger Taliban affiliates.

In the Arab Middle East the Muslim brotherhood set the tone of the jihadists. Takfirism is the process through which a Muslim is essentially excommunicated from the umma or Islamic community and deemed an enemy of the same. For the youth, the first generation to be born in the air of independence came of age and most of the Muslim world. These young people had no firsthand recollection of the anti-colonial tide of liberation that had legitimized the nationalist regimes under which they lived, and thus they were out of step with the elites in government. More troubling, they have been born too late to benefit from the jobs and social advancement created by independence in from the sharing out of property abandoned by the departing settlers and colonists.

In contrast, the educational background of these prominent Afghan Arabs is in numerous secular subjects and they tended to form a new, religiously aware elite committed to jihad in their adopted country.

1979 is a critical year for three events that resonated throughout the Muslim world. The three events are the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution, and the siege of mecca. The Iranian revolution did not convince many Sunnis however the attack on Mecca by Sunni fundamentalists who believes that the Mehdi's return was imminent. The attack paved the way for further militancy among the Islamists.
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gmicksmith | Apr 30, 2016 |
Most Taliban fighters are Pashtuns, a people who cherish their vibrant poetic tradition, closely associated with that of song. The poems in this collection are meant to be recited and sung; and this is the manner in which they are enjoyed by the wider Pashtun public today. From audiotapes traded in secret in the bazaars of Kandahar, to mp3s exchanged via bluetooth in Kabul, to video files downloaded in Dubai and London, Taliban poetry has an appeal that transcends the insurgency. For the Taliban today, these poems, or ghazals, have a resonance back to the 1980s war against the Soviets, when similar rhetorical styles, poetic formulae and tricks with meter inspired mujahideen combatants and non-combatants alike. The poetry presented here includes ‘classics’ of the genre from the 1980s and 1990s as well as a selection from the odes and ghazals of today’s conflict . Veering from nationalist paeans to dirges replete with religious symbolism, the poems are organised under four headings —War, Pastoral, Religious and Love — and cover many themes and styles. The political is intertwined with the aesthetic, the celebratory cry is never far from the funeral dirge and praise of martyrs lost.… (mere)
 
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