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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Islam as a Political Weapon

This is the sad and shocking reality. The Taliban and Bin Laden are not isolated cases but manifestations of a complex and potentially durable sociopolitical phenomenon. Basically, this phenomenon involves the immoral, unscrupulous and irreligious exploitation of Islam as a political weapon.

Source: Mchio, Saad (December 3 2001). Exploiting Islam has proved disastrous politics. International Herald Tribune.

Saad Mchio is a regular contributor to The Daily Star in Lebanon and to Al Khaleej in the United Arab Emirates. He contributed this comment to the New York Times.