Monday, March 07, 2005

Some good analysis about the root causes of Islamic terrorism from Juan Cole. I was reading along and mentally nodding in agreement, until I reached this sentence:
To this litany of Occupations [sic] that produce radical Muslim terrorism, Chechnya and Kashmir can be added.
He concludes with:
Some just disposition of the Kashmir issue must be attained, and Indian enormities against Kashmiri Muslims must stop.
IMHO, I would not club Kashmir with the other hotspots like Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya, Syria and Lebanon, for the simple reason that the onset of terrorism in Kashmir didn't coincide with the start of the so-called occupation; it required an external trigger ("death by a thousand cuts").