By Fareed Zakaria
A few years after 9/11, I began to make the point – in columns, books and of television – that the threat from al-Qaeda had diminished substantially. Al-Qaeda had flourished in an age when governments regarded it as a sporadic annoyance rather than a major national security challenge. After 9/11, governments around the world began collaborating to track its people, stop its money flows, and eliminate it camps. Once that process was underway, al-Qaeda found it much harder to operate under the radar screen and plot its mayhem.
Today, 11 years after 9/11, it is clearer than ever that al-Qaeda is a shadow of its former self. So much so that there may now be a danger of complacency. Serious experts and scholars, like Bruce Riedel, argue that al-Qaeda has been able to reconstitute itself in places like Yemen, Somalia, and even Mali. The Pakistani connection remains strong. And the growing chaos in Syria has presented the group with an opportunity to make inroads there as well.
These are all worrying signs and naturally one hopes that the U.S. government, as well as others, are battling al-Qaeda wherever they can. Yesterday saw news that the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Yemen was killed by government forces. The drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan continue. But these signs of life from al-Qaeda do not change the central reality of its diminished potency. The danger of al-Qaeda was always about more than scattered violence in far off places across the globe.
Al-Qaeda was viewed as a mortal threat to the United States and much of the civilized world because it could have become the symbol of protest of Muslims around the world against regimes they hated and a world order dominated by the West. It seemed to tap into the frustration and resentment of millions in the Muslim world.
But two things happened along the way to a global jihad. First, as governments became more alert, al-Qaeda found it much harder to attack military and diplomatic targets – embassies, ships, national monuments – and it began to attack whatever it could. That meant it was targeting cafes and railway stations and killing locals not foreigners. Soon, it was losing support among the locals from Indonesia to Jordan to Saudi Arabia.
The second, perhaps more important, shift has been the Arab Spring. As governments in the Arab world are influenced or even run by Muslim fundamentalist groups – in Tunisia and Egypt – al-Qaeda becomes an even more marginal and extreme movement. It is difficult for al-Qaeda to rant and rail against the government of Egypt when it is no longer a secular, military dictatorship but a democracy with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood at its helm. The ideological struggle was always at the heart of al-Qaeda’s appeal and that struggle is dying as Arab countries open themselves up and include Islamists within their politics.
This doesn’t mean the end of discontent, violence, or terror. It just means that the attacks don’t portend a larger and unending global struggle. Maoists guerrillas kept fighting long after Mao died, they just didn’t scare people so much anymore.
Alas, as Harvard’s Graham Allison has pointed out, none of this changes the grim reality that a handful of people, with small amounts of cash, can cause death and destruction on a vast scale in today’s world. We can battle bad ideas, but it is impossible to battle the march of technology.
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fareed, you are such a loser
Can't answer the article's premise, so you resort to name-calling, eh? Oh well, carry on.
The credibility of the author is questionable due to his own actions in the past when it comes to writing articles and essays. It really doesn't matter what the content is, no one is going to listen or take him seriously anymore.
Darkmatter666, you're no better than m123. "The credibility of the author is questionable due to his own actions in the past when it comes to writing articles and essays." How about elaborating on that empty statement. What exactly are you referring to. What "actions in the past"? Specifics please.
attack Fareed ...what , no counter to his assessment.. call him names then.. yeah!
He plagiarized.
why thats' incredible Dark matter speaking for everyone else....that's rather dark of you... still no counter to his opinoin... just talk...
I believe these gentlemen are talking about Fareed & plagiarism... I can't back up the name calling but I would say that several consider his credibility as questionable at best. You can google his name & plagiarism but i cited an article from the Washington Post below.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/should-fareed-zakaria-be-forgiven-for-plagiarizing/2012/08/13/6651c4ec-e4b5-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_blog.html
Darkmatter666: Then why are you here, if you didn't take him seriously why even bother to post? Nothing better to do in life, eh?
Fareed did forget the Palestinian cause. Jihadists have always been sympathetic towards Palestinans and wanted to free them from Israeli occupation.
"The credibility of the author is questionable due to his own actions in the past when it comes to writing articles and essays"
Uh no, you sad little half-wit, actually it isn't.
at least he wrote his reply himself
@ladyfon
woah! he plagerized
woah! you plagerized (statistically that's most likely true)
woah! your opinion is no longer credible so you can stfu!!!!
you see my point...what he plagerized on was a significant portion of an article that he was trying to reference. His crime was that he didn't reference it correctly, thus considered plagerizing.
If that's not enough, many of your own personal opinions can be written down in an articulate manner that would closely resemble the writings of another person. If that person made a case, he still can sue for plagerizing.
Does that mean your opinion is invalid simply because others share it so closely?
Fareed made a mistake, a big mistake for someone of his profession and his caliber of itellectual. we shouldn't invalidate all of his work for one (or a few) mistakes. granted in his career plagarism is that serious of an offence, however I believe his reputation should be sufficient enough to give him one (and I say one) freebie
The article's premise is wrong. Typical for Zakaria, who misses the forest for the trees with every article he slaps together.
Al Qaeda is not the problem. Radical Islam is the problem. Al Qaeda is the symptom; radicalized Islam is the disease. But Zakaria would never have the nuggets to make a broad but accurate statement like that for fear of insulting non-radical muslims who are sympathetic to radical Islam. And there are millions of such folks. All of which stayed very quiet on 9/11. None of whom publicly criticize Al Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood.
Their silence gives them away.
Carlos, there is a big difference between plagiarizing in the pursuit of money or educational credits as opposed to plagiarism in a general comments section where no money or educational credit will be given...
@mdamone4
Then you could make the same argument with "Christian" extremists. Just stating that the extremism could exist (though it is another gospel in my view).
Name-calling is juvenile and worthless.
Fareed didn't just steal a little bit, he as a 'professional' is bound to cite others properly. For a non-professional or a non-academic, stealing others' words is not a big deal but when you are trying to put yourself out there as an expert and someone to take seriously, you have zero credibility when you are an idea and word thief.
This is the same reason that students are kicked out of college when they steal others' work in order to look like they are smart and do good work. In other words, they are hypocrites in the truest and most basic sense (hypocrite is Greek for someone wearing a mask to appear to be someone they are not [an old term for theatre actors]).
It’s not that I don’t like him. I share the pundit’s broadly liberal internationalist view towards world affairs. And unlike many wonks (the big exception here being the University of Chicago’s Austan Goolsbee), Zakaria’s actually got a sense of humor, which is always a plus.
But there was always something a bit too cute by half about this good-looking, well-spoken darling of the Center-Left with his million dollar smile.
So it didn’t come as a huge surprise when I learned that Zakaria had become embroiled in a plagiarism scandal that has – temporarily, at least – cost him two of his plum platforms: Time and CNN. On Friday, both news outlets suspended Zakaria while they investigated charges that he had lifted passages from an article by New Yorker writer Jill Lepore on gun control. He has since apologized to Lepore and taken full responsibility for the incident, which he described as a “serious lapse.”
To be fair, I’ve looked at the two passages - which you can see laid out side by each, here – and on journalistic grounds, I don’t think this is such a huge deal. As my colleague Melinda Henneberger pointed out, what he’s really guilty of is re-writing a paragraph summarizing a book about gun control. When you compare that to, say, the Jonah Lehrer affair at the New Yorker – Lehrer was fired after admitting that he fabricated entire quotes for an article – Zakaria’s deeds don’t seem hugely horrible.
Should Zakaria have credited Lepore and/or chosen a better way of paraphrasing her? Of course he should have. He also should have done so when he nicked a few passages from The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg a few years back. (I’ll give this to Zakaria, at least he knows enough to steal from smart people.)
But in the 24/7 news environment in which we live and operate as journalists – in which getting the scoop and getting the clicks is the name of the game – I think Zakaria can be forgiven for cutting a few corners. (I similarly don’t hold it against him that he apparently gave the same commencement speech twice within 11 days. That’s just efficient.)
No, I find him culpable because Zakaria comes from the world of academia. Before setting off into the dizzying heights of punditry, he picked up a Ph.D. in political science from none other than Harvard University (where, coincidentally, Lepore teaches history.)
Plagiarism may not be a major moral failing, as literary scholar and some time New York Times op-ed contributor Stanley Fish points out. But in the university setting in which Zakaria was trained and credentialed, it’s pretty much one of the worst crimes you can commit.
I know of what I speak. Like Zakaria, I, too, am a card-carrying political scientist. Once – back when I was teaching at the University of Chicago – I came across a student’s paper which I was quite sure had been plagiarized. The first tip-off was the language itself – the student in question was not a native English speaker. And when I consulted with two economist colleagues of mine, who took a closer look at the empirical work, we discovered that the entire thing had been lifted from somewhere else.
We brought the student into our offices and within five minutes of grilling him about his research methodology, he confessed to everything. In tears, he admitted that his wife was pregnant and so – inches away from graduating and getting a good job – he decided to take the easy route and turn in someone else’s work to complete his dissertation.
I felt genuinely sorry for the guy. I really did. My colleagues and I were all assistant professors and close enough to our own dissertations to know just how stressful writing a thesis can be. But we also felt that this young man had known full well what he was doing when he cheated and the risks he was taking. And so we denied him his degree. Because if we’d let him coast, we were basically saying that it’s OK to steal other people’s ideas and get away with it. And it isn’t.
I’m not sure if Zakaria’s “lapse” means that he ought to be disbarred from the journalistic profession, or whatever it is we do to those who break our ethical codes in the media.
But there’s no question that Zakaria knew exactly what he was doing. And why it was wrong.
Delia Lloyd, a former correspondent for Politics Daily, is an American journalist based in London. She blogs about adulthood at http://www.realdelia.com and you can follow her on Twitter @realdelia . < I did not write this.
@ms123 is an idiot.
He has his own show on CNN, he is very educated on current events, and has lived abroad.
What you got.
The ability to distinguish between and idiot, and an idiot!!
He was suspended from his CNN show and Time magazine after being caught PLAIGARIZING other author's hard work and research multiple times!
you got it ace ...just a bunch of talk from hidden places .. such brave little people..
can you say or spell plagiarism?
So, by that standard, Jerry Falwell is an expert as well!
EDUCATION. Education does not suggest experience or intelligence. it is borrowed knowledge conveyed by people who may be predisposed to certain thoughts of their own. I find Fareed's columns to be biased and, while well written from a grammatical point of view, not in alignment with the way this country should be thinking. In this case, he fails miserably to give recognition to the fact that it was George W Bush who put into place 95% of what has made thing country safe. Education. Overrated. Fareed, overrated, Obama,grammatically correct and that is about it.
Kim Kardashian has her own show too
Actually Bush did not put in place 95% of what has made America safer. He basically quit looking for and dealing with AlQuaeda 6 months after 9/11 when he turned his attention to Iraq, He dissolved the CIS unit that was searching for Bin LAdin 6 months fater 9/11. It had been gathering information on AlQuaeda for over 7 years by the time Bush dissolved the CIA group and it wasn't until Obama bot into office that he ordered that it be put back together and continue looking for Bin Ladin and Al Quaeda. Drones. Well I guess you could say that Bush did them first but he didn't do them especially effectively. Bush's efforts to play cowboy and bully other countries made them less willing to cooperate with the US. What Obama has done is actually use drones effectively to kill most of the top leadership, find and kill Bin LAdin by using intelligence, cooperate with other counries to increase their cooperation with us which has made their financial arrangement much more difficult and has encouraged the sharing of intelligence between countries which has relegated them to countries with little infrastrucure. Are they still a danger yes but much less of one over the last 4 years.
Although I agree with Fareed Z., I dispute the idea of a "small amount of cash." There were plenty of money from the Gulf countries that financed al-Qaeda. Help also came from the Afghan government aiding and abetting these fanatics. What has happened in the past 11 years is that not only nearly every government has become alerted to the treat of terrorism, the zeal to send money in the Arab/Muslim countries have reduced substantially. The international banking laws have been tightened significantly. That does not mean that we will put our guards down, it simply means that the world events of the past 11 years have become less conducive to another large scale spectacular attack.
Small is relative- compared to a war budget for attacking a country, these are relatively small amounts needed to mount an attack.
Small IS relative. France is trying to give them heavy artillery to continue their attack on Syria. The USA is arming and funding them in Syria as well as every where else they have operated. The CIA set them up to take on the Soviets in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia is funding them. Oman is funding them.
m123, you wouldn't make a mole on Mr. Zakaria's butt. The day you come even close to accomplishing anything notable, comment again. Until then, please go back to school.
and you have accomplished exactly what? Try to be a little civil, ok?
Fareed will say anything if he thinks it makes him look good. Al Qaeda is like a type of Medusa; cut off one head and 10 more grow in it's place!
It might make America feel "powerful" and "self-satisfied" that they have decimated this terrorist group, but the truth is you've created a monster and you need to sleep with one eye open!
Al Qaeda has, by no means, been 'decimated.' It has been nearly destroyed, for a number of reasons. 'Decimated' implies that it has lost 1/10th of its effectiveness, strength, membership, etc. At this point, it is no more than a shadow of its former self and it is highly unlikely that it will ever recover. Other groups may take its place but, as Fareed says, the conditions for Al Qaeda's existence and prosperity are being resolved. Fortunately for everyone, they're being resolved by Arabs themselves – and it is much more difficult to rail against the injustices of the system when the responsibility for those injustices rests with those who created the system.
As for 'sleeping with one eye open,' it helps to have 600million eyes in the US. At any one time, at least one of them is going to be open.
Steve,
If they have been destroyed, why is Homeland Security arming to the teeth now (1.4 BILLION rounds of ammunition, armored vehicles, armored pillbox checkpoints, etc)? Weren't they formed because Al Qaeda were hiding behind every bush and tree? I say the REAL terrorists are people pulling the strings of our government.
Just a small issue to point out, especailly when commenting on the truth or validity of the facts within the articles. Medusa (proper name)- Female with body of a snake that would turn men to stone with her gaze and the fictional creature that would grow 2 heads when one was cut off was called a Hydra.
As for "Fareed will say anything if he thinks it makes him look good", you just summed up almost all politictions, media outlets, exectives and basically everyone else in this country and world.
No....YOU're a loser....so there!
Do you disagree with Fareed? Take some time and write a reply. What are you, 12 years old? Oh, maybe that's just the level of school you got to. Pathetic. Fareed brings up excellent points. Complacency is what allowed 9/11 to actually take place. Complacency allowed Pearl Harbor to take place. Complacency and lack of vigilance allowed the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center with a truck full of explosives in the basement parking garage. Complacency allowed the subway bombs in London and in Spain. I have traveled in the Mideast. I have seen the anger in the young men's eyes in the slums of the cities when they find out I am an American. Al Quaeda may be crippled, but that is just one of dozens of radical organizations. If we destroy Al Quaeda, some other organization will take its place. We must keep our guard up. This is a new kind of war. A war of shadows. If we let our guard down, we will suffer for it. No amount of name calling will prevent those who want to do us harm from completing their missions. Now grow up. Put on your big boy pants and act like an adult. No one wants to hear your childish nonsense.
Read The Big Bamboozle and I bet you change your mind.
Written like a true man.
why is Zakaria still with CNN? He should be fired for plagarism. He's proven to not be credible in the past.
Fareed addressed this 'plagiarism' issue... it wasn't a verbatim copy, neither was it him trying to pass off someone else's work as his own. He and another author both took ideas from a common source. Fareed clearly cites the source, but does not cite the other author who preceded him. This was a very minor incident, but he wasn't trying to jump onto someone else's bandwagon. He doesn't need to – he is very articulate and learned. And both CNN and Time retained him after a thorough check of his past work – THAT alone should clarify that he isn't a plagiarist. But then, why let a few facts get in the way of a perfectly good insult, especially by people who have little to show for themselves?
ms123 please enlighten us more with your worldly, educated, thought provoking thoughts m123...oooops ya aint got any. oh well then on the other hand please go back to your crack pipe and try duck tape over your mouth..after brushing your teeth if you have any.
No kidding, is he even a citizen of the US? I get so sick of his bloviating.
Yes he is a us citizen. Are you?
Al Qaeda diminished? Every day they blow up 1/2 of Iraq killing hundreds at a time. They are causing havoc all over Yemen and several parts of Africa. They control more geography than ever. Diminished? What are you smoking?
m123, you are a loser.
The comment just proves the old adage. If you don't have any facts, just make a personal attack. Maybe there will be someone out there naive enough to believe it.
Not a mention of Nato arming Al-Qaeda in Libya. Grow some balls and lets talk about WT7. How about Dick Cheney's clear involvment in 911? What a bunch of crap. There is a special place in hell for anyone that covers up the truth about 911. This whole continued cover-up is just getting plain stupid... everyone knows 911 was an inside job. Just a matter of time when the people will all stand up at once and clean house.
Yeah– and Olive Oil had no boobs, so THERE!!!
Do you actually think that CNN checked out this article before publishing this known plagariser?
If someone is a Muslim, and ready to demonize Muslims, he is a hot commodity. Whom are you calling a loser? lol
That's actually a pretty fair assessment. Who wrote that one Fareed?
Actually, Al Qaeds was never all that powerful in the first place. Moreover, it is quite dubious that they could ever have pulled off 9/11 completely on their own due to a lack of both sophistication and finances since all their assets were frozen for years. On ther other hand, 9/11 was a great boon for Bush and his right-wing cronies! Bush's popularity soared to new heights and he got the Patriot Act passed in Congress with virtually no opposition! Enough said!
I meant to print "Al Qaeda", not "Al Qaeds" above. Sorry for the misprint.
Yeah... because a couple airline tickets and box cutters are really hard to come by.
What you conspiracy theorists lack in common sense and rational thinking, you make up for in entertainment value. Bill Clinton can't even get a BJ in the oval office without the whole world finding out, but one of the dumbest presidents in history pulled off the greatest conspiracy ever? Given the complacency and poor security of the time, there was nothing sophisticated about the 9/11 attacks. Put 3 small groups of people on flights that would be in the air at the same time and hope for the best. That's not sophistication.
Thank you TC,
GWB was hardly smart enough to complete a sentance without stumbling. His VP couldn't fire a shotgun without shooting a friend in the face.
But apparently they were smart enough to pull off the most elaborate coverup in modern day history.
Boy these conspiracy theorist can see right through it all. And us sheep are so dumb.
Good to see realism and intelligent comment. Thank you!
FRED phred...CLEVER, but now look what we have and that makes the former look so much better doesn't it.....? you are the idiot here
perhaps you are right but they sure did get a free pass to do whatever they wanted for 7 years including invading Iraq and finishing the job his dad didnt. It also got him reelected which with no attack would have never....ever happened. and i think vp chaney made a load of money off those wars. Perhaps there was someone else pulling the strings but in the end the big winners in the aftermath of 9\11 were bush, chaney and hailburton.
OK, explain how most of them got into the country in the first place and were not watched even though they were on terrorist watchlists? Why were several of them trained in US military establishments? Why did the BBC report that WTC-7 had fallen on a newscast with WTC-7 standing in the background? Why did satellint infrared imaging show 3000 deg hot spots several days AFTER the buildings fell? Why did Cheney call off the F-16s that were in the air at the time? Why was NORAD conducting a "drill" of EXACTLY the same scenario at the same time? I can go on all day with whys that will not be answered because it was an inside job!
Again, even if you're so gullible that you think the government could keep this a secret, the conspiracy theories have been disproved by science and rational thinking. Time to move on. We get it, you don't like George Bush. But do yourself a favor, don't let you're dislike of one political party or one politician cause you to make an utter fool of yourself in public. Whether you realize it or not, you're embarrassing yourself.
Haven't seen Bush much in media recently right? The more he would appear, the more the American public will remember, the more this economic experience will be felt, and the betrayal would become more obvious. The awful attack by Osama's low life's used for politcal gain in an attempt to eradicate the American way of life by our own former President.
Truthers are even dumber than birthers.
Four years ago, Bush supporters used to say "Sure, it looks bad now, but history will show that GWB was a great man"
Still waiting for those secret files that show he was great to come out to the light. I guess we "misunderestimated" him.
Bin Laden SAID he would attack America because you used Saudi Arabia[Muslim] as a base from which to attack other Muslims during the Gulf War! You didn't listen, did you? – because you were so full of your own importance. But Bin Laden taught you a lesson you'll never forget.
Don't misunderstand me, I couldn't BEAR the man. But to say he was simply attacking the American way of life is juvenile and dishonest.
Now tell me – how do you think the thousands of Muslims you've killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Liobys etc with Bombs and Drones feel about YOU?
HONESTYCOUNTS asks: "Now tell me – how do you think the thousands of Muslims you've killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Liobys etc with Bombs and Drones feel about YOU?"
Well... they are dead, they don't really feel anything anymore.
Now go think about it and when you figure it out, come back and rephrase your question.
What "lesson" was this? Let Osama defend Saudi Arabia against Saddam so as not to offend some nutjob?
You are a complete bafoon. So tiring to hear you conspiracy theorists that the US did this to themselves to drum up war. The planning was large scale but the sophistication was low tech. they needed to gather discontent individuals with access to passports, financing enought to pay for their expenses here in the US while also paying for their flight training and cell phones; a sheik from Saudi Arabia or elsewhere could have funded these clowns with about 250k maybe a little more the hardest part was having them finish flight school and board the planes at the same time please please stop acting as if you were ever a CIA agent and leave the discussion to people who have been in the military and know the culture of where WE have been you make yourself look stupider than Bush by saying it was Bush and his croonies
No offence to you but I worked for 31 years as a construction Millwright and was around steel almost everyday. It's a physical impossibility for steel columns of any size to collapse on theirselves.I'm not saying this was a conspiracy I'm just saying that a plane flying into a building cannot cause the end result of what we saw 11 years ago.It defies the laws of physics.Kind of like if all the bones in your body were rigid and you got shot in the chest you wouldn't expect your body to collapse into a pile of bones about 3 feet in diameter....There's much more to this story that we'll never know.
sorry Kotchi, but it has been proven by engineers that it is very possible given the sustained extreme temperatures they were under. The steel didn't have to reach it's melting point, it only needed to be weakened. Your work as a millright lends you no credibility in talking about steel beams under extreme, sustained temperatures and pressures. Science provides those answers.
Kotchi – the steel melted. The buildings were full of jet aviation fuel. You do know they flew planes into the buildings right?
NEVER in history either before or after 911, has a steel frame building like these collapsed on its own due to fire. Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough, especially in a contained environment like inside a building, to even melt aluminum, let alone structural steel. People on the ground after the collapse reported molten pools of metal. Satellite images show 3000 deg hot spots DAYS after. Sure, that happens all the time! (insert sarcasm).
Johnny, do you have ANY experience with fires and combustion temperatures? How about from FEMA: Recalling that the North Tower suffered no major structural damage from the intense office fire of February 23, 1975, we can conclude that the ensuing office fires of September 11, 2001, also did little extra damage to the towers.
Jet fuel burn very poorly without being exposed to and mixed with a lot of air. That is why there was a lot of black smoke from the fires. Temperatures from those fires never reached any of the critical temperatures for structural steel.
Paul, all you have to do is a little research to find out why this is possible. Very reputable sources (popular mechanics, for one) have published scientific studies about this. Try searching for THE truth, not just what you want to be true. The vast majority of conspiracy theories are started by people with no technical knowledge of the subjects, and I have a feeling you fall within this group.
Why assume that a demolition was a conspiratorial pretext to wardrums? Many of us (that can recognize a controlled demolition when we see one) believe it was brought down to minimize loss of life and property damage. There is no denying that WTC 7 was demolished by charges . The emergency radio audio tapes say it quite clearly.
Indeed, this says more than enough about you.
What an 1diot! Back to "it's Bush's fault". Move out of mom's basement and see the world for what it is, A larger picture. L0ser.
You are absolutely right, it is not Bush's fault, everyone knew how incompetent he was. It is actually your fault, you voted for that buffoon.
Who was president in 2001?
I'm no fan of President Bush; nevertheless, to imply he had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks is ridiculous.
You are correct, it was Cheney. HE issued all the stand down orders that day.
I'm sure Bush conspired with Bigfoot to pull it off.
agree or disagree with this commentator all you want but he is very close to the truth with his commentary. I agree with his assessment.
How is it possible for Al Qaeda to "go away" when the US goverment supports them and uses them to do thier fighting in countires like : Lybia, Syria, Tirkey – the list goes on.
We are supposting Al Qaeda with US tax dollars – fact.
DT is an idiot. Fact.
nothing to back up your statement- just name calling? so typical of libs
From one of the largest news company in the world:
Hillary Clinton pointed out al-Qaeda was a CIA creation trained by the US government and released into strategic countries for the purpose of destabilizing their governments therefore making the task of usurping control easier for the US government.
According to investigative reporter Seymour Hersch, the Bush administration, in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, was covertly funding radical Suni groups with ties to al-Qaeda to counter Shiite groups backed by Iran. In a game of fake terrorist group planted into a country to agitate the governments in place this method appears to be common.
Along with the al-Qaeda invention, Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA and worked for them as an operative. In 2008, Milt Bearden told Dan Rather that the “myth of Osama bin Laden” was created by the US government. At first bin Laden was a great warrior when he worked with the CIA against the Russians in Afghanistan, then he became the go-to Boogeyman leader of an “extremist terrorist group called al-Qaeda”.
Further evidence that the US government not only created al-Qaeda, but use them for controlled terrorism in foreign countries comes from Richard Clark in his most recent book.
Clark contends that al-Qaeda was created for Saudi Arabia to bankroll Osama bin Laden, through the House of Saud, “in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union during the 1980′s and Riyadh and Washington together contributed an estimated $3.5 billion to the mujahideen.”
Yup. Al qaeda is actually code for Seal Team 6. Damn those guys are deep under cover.
DT's facts come from the same source as Harry Reid's do
Waiting for DT to present evidence supporting his ridiculous statement......still waiting......still waiting......ZZZZZZZ
Well your just going to have to wait for him to photoshop a pic or make a youtube vid to back up hi not very well thought out claim. Be patient Larry.
Please seek mental help! While in therapy, learn some critical thinking skill.
I'm telling you, Bush is conspiring with Bigfoot too...not just Al Qaeda. Why do think Bigfoot is so elusive?
Everyone with an ounce of imtelligence would AGREE with you DT! Well said
who are you channeling today, chum?
Fareed's articles were much more interesting when he was copying other writers.
Yeah.. A guy who got a BA degree from Yale and a Doctorate from Harvard and born to distinguished parents must obviously be stupid just because he looks different and speaks with an accent. By that logic you must be a freakin Genius!!
BA from X – PhD from Y: Yep that automatically makes him eligible to not copy and steal others ideas. Brilliant! Keep using that logic to get you thru life....
Sorry, dude, but all Zakaria's pedigree does for him is set the bar higher.
He deserves, at least for the next year, every bit of ribbing for the plagiarism he committed.
Really! - "You R An Idiot"
Gee, didn't GW get a degree from one of them, too? So did Obama. Kinda negates any arguement you had on that point.
SB Greg, he was cleared of those charges. Of course, in your world once accused, you're guilty for life, right!
Let he who is without sin...
In the grand scheme of things, not citing a source is pretty inconsequential. It's a mistake and was recognized as such. Move on.
I hope Sarah Palin weighs in on this. She is truly gifted when it comes to this type of analysis.
She is way smarter the Joe "Sit that biker chick on my lap": BIDEN.
Anybody who takes 7 years to get a 4-year degree in Journalism and doesn't know there is a North and South Korea is obviously admired and loved by many Republicans today. They all have much in common with each other.
I live in AK and you couldn't be further from the truth. She is a shrewd political operative and is adept at promoting herself for her own benefit, but smart is something she could never claim to be. There is a reason Mr. Biden crushed her on the debate stage.
xfiler93, Sarah Palin is only smarter than the Vice President of this country in your sick mind. In the real world, the woman is a mental moron.
A pitbull with lipstick is still a dog.
Besides, she can see Al-Qaeda's training camp from her backyard.
I'm a Republican, and I mean this from the heart...you can only appreciate Sarah Palin's gifts when she's in the shower.
Ol Fareed worried about his BROS.
I think, with the successes of the US drone attacks, Al Qaeda has morphed into what is largely a franchise operation with very little central control. Nobody knows what happened to al-Zawahiri. That ghoul is probably afraid to look in the mirror these days, but he is no doubt still trying to have some influence. He's an egomaniac so it is highly unlikely that he is just hiding under a rock and shivering in fear. al-Zawahiri has become the last living symbol of the Al Qaeda that struck us on 9/11, so I think it is still important to "bring him to justice".
Great article, but could have sworn I saw it somewhere else first...
Nice, CNN, keep this parrot on your staff and give him pride of place.
...Yeah.. A guy who got a BA degree from Yale and a Doctorate from Harvard and born to distinguished parents must obviously be stupid just because he looks different and speaks with an accent. By that logic you must be a freakin Genius!!...
Sorry, dude, but all Zakaria's pedigree does for him is set the bar higher.
He deserves, at least for the next year, every bit of ribbing he gets for the plagiarism he committed.
Gee, didn't both GW and Obama get degrees from Ivy Leagus schools as well? Makes your point seem rather pointless.
Wow, the comments above are rife with conspiracy theory as well as m123's completely pointless comment. With such uneducated, easily duped citizens in the USA, Al Qaeda doesn't even need to attack again. You people embarrass me.
The audience of this board is just like most CNN polls – heavily over weighted with liberals, blacks, and Hispanics – none of who have ever worked hard, have a god in their lives, nor even know what the word humility means. They are too busy looking in the mirror saying "who is that brilliant person in front of me". The rest of the day, the spend their time saying " would you like fries with that?"
Talk like that doesn't exactly make your side look any better by comparison. It's possible to disagree without resorting to such base language.
Gee, nice generalizing! Can you do card tricks too?
I am a liberal – I have a MBA and have worked hard my entire life. I do not have a God in my life because the question then is which God to I have in my life? I prefer to have no God and act in a just and moral way. I am a humanitarian – I give to casues and groups that support justice, equality, and work to end suffering. I don't see the liberals of this world as a danger – its those that think they are always correct – on the far left or far right that are the danger.
Would you like some fries with that BS that Fox News is feeding you?
Harry, I have a degree in finance and economics and I am white, yet, I comment regularly on CNN's website. It seems your thinking doesn't hold water. If your comment is a reflection of who you are, you are the one with very little education.
By the same token, all the sheeple comments regarding how all of the news reports are REAL (they wouldn't LIE to us), shows a lack of critical thinking and even mild cureosity.
I wonder who he stole this article from?
easy – it was Soledad.....who steals from liberal blogs
Yeah.. A guy who got a BA degree from Yale and a Doctorate from Harvard and born to distinguished parents must obviously be stupid just because he looks different and speaks with an accent. By that logic you must be a freakin Genius!!–
when did you learn to cut and paste? recently?
When will they put this jerk in GITMO?
Elevate your thinking. Right now it is in the Gutter. Try to say someting smart when you are on a topic that needs certain basic intelligence to even read it let alone understand it.
How do Christians feed in Egypt?
How about some actual original thought from you rather than just trying to bring others down to your level?
WDinDallas, they will lock him up when you actually start making comments worth reading, which is NEVER.
OUTLAW THE GOP.....OUR GREATEST THREAT
you can try CAPLOCK but you r comment is still moro nic
If you think we'd be better off with just one party running the show (regardless of which party it is) you're delusional.
Party politics are not the answer. The GOP, Democrats, Independants, Green, Socialists, Communists, etc are not leaders, they're leeches and puppets to money and power. If you so desperately need a group or individual to tell you what to do and how to feel and what to think, you are the problem. It's the sheep-brained lemmings such as yourself that need to be outlawed from the voting booth.
I'm glad to know we have one American with all the answers. Geniuses like you must find it hard to live with all us idiots.
What a tool.
Zakaria the plagiarist should be fired.
Yes, yes, but what is your opinion on the article?
I know it is difficult to stay focused for you, but give it a shot. We already debated how vile and worthless Zakaria is for plagiarizing his work. We changed topics a while back. Try to keep up.
Kyle, he was cleared of those charges. Please keep with the latest news before commenting.
Terrorism is an international criminal problem, not a military problem. Let's deal with terrorism as criminal problem, not in the Cold War mentaility(i.e. you are not dealing with the problem unless you are spending alot of money and constantly deploying troops).
BTW: Romney does us no good alienating Russia when we can share intelligence with them.
Who did you steal this story idea from?
....experts are hilarious. Always doling out information based on conjecture and REALLY bad intel. But keep it up, lol.
If you know that this is based on "Really" bad intel, then you must be having the "Really" good intel. Otherwise how else do you know this is bad intel???
I don't understand if there are differences/similarities between Al Qaeda and Taliban. I just hear only when the media portrait them, 'Terrorists'.
I think, most of the Arabs have mixed races. So, how could we identify them.
What they look like? What are their numbers of population around the World?
At the past, we heard, Taliban was the best friend of America, to fight against Soviet Union. So, what happened with that trust?
Do America must re-think its current best friends, incase they become enemies?
If war will start with Iran, will it take the same costs, times and collaborations that has been used for Taliban?
Remember, since 2001 to this time, the war is still going on in Afghanistan.
Of course, this Planet Earth becomes, the blood bath, since it has been created. Their is always non-stop war or mass-killings somewhere around the World. If it doesn't happened in Africa, it happened in Middle-East and other places.
Some of us, we adopted good sprit inside us. And some of us, we adopted evil sprit inside us.
What makes me to feel more sad is, those who have good sprit being killed by others.
Is it because, too good is too loose?
May Almighty GOD give us a courage to respect and help each other, peacefully.
You know the Taliban wasn't formed until 1996, 7 years after the Soviets withdrew. The US gave aid to a number of different groups and the Pakistani ISI decided who got what. You should know your history before commenting.
I ran Copyscape on this article and it looks like he didn't cheat. This time.
Darkmatter666, as said previously, he was cleared of those charges.
This maybe hard for you to comprehend.. but he did not copy. He and another author both took ideas from a common source. Fareed clearly cited the source, but did not cite the other author – this IS a gaffe for which he was cleared by both CNN and Time, who went through all his past records, and he still apologized. It IS an oversight but NOT an act of plagiarism. But then, why let facts get in the way of a meaningless insult that Fareed isn't likely to read anyway?
it is impossible to battle the wit of rationalism.
Al-queda originally was of Saudi Arabian origin and trained in Afghanistan. Today we have al-queda in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, saudi-arabia, libya, yemen, syria, and pretty much every other north african and middle-eastern nation. That simple fact alone destroys the entire premise of this article. Diminished? Weakened? The fact is that america has attacked or threatened nearly every single country that opposed the Islamist extremists allowing them to spread unchecked around the globe. This article and any person that supports its premise is dangerously deluded.
This is a very articulate article. I wonder who wrote it before Fareed had it published as his own work.
Andrew, he was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before commenting.
He wasn't cleared! He admitted and apologized. That's not being cleared.
This maybe hard for you to comprehend.. but he did not copy. He and another author both took ideas from a common source. Fareed clearly cited the source, but did not cite the other author – this IS a gaffe for which he was cleared by both CNN and Time, who went through all his past records, and he still apologized. It IS an oversight but NOT an act of plagiarism. But then, why let facts get in the way of a meaningless insult that Fareed isn't likely to read anyway?
Most comments here are the Kindergarten level. Intellectual capacity, tolerance and openness to opposing viewpoints all go hand in hand. Lack of one, in this case Tolerance, show lack of the other two. So let’s stop resorting to name calling and have an adult conversation about any topic.
How do CHRISTIANS feel in Egypt ???????
WorldGoneCrazy, your comment doesn't make sense, but it does confirm why you think the world has gone crazy. Just think, maybe you're the one crazy or at the minimum uninformed.
so CNN does not fire a writer for plagerism? they just have them dissappear for a while and hope we forget?
sorta like rollan martin who advocated having gays beat to a pulp. he vanished for awhile but was back on CNN.
He was cleared of those charges! Please try to keep up.
Who cares what the liar Zakaria has to say – he probably stole it from someone else anyway
He was cleared of those charges. Accused are consider innocence until proven guilty. In this case he was proven innocent. As I said to other, please try to keep up with the latest news!
Reblogged this on dmnewsi.
Didn't I read this story somewhere else ?!
That would be funny if he wasn't cleared of plagiarism. Read more, comment less!
he wasn't cleared- he apologized for his "mistake", meaning, oops, I got caught. Quite different than cleared
I encourage everyone to stop listening to the media as the information they provide is false. 911 was a plot between the Saudis and top goverment officials (Bush, Cheney, etc). Financed by the Saudis, with a trail of cheques to prove it, where the hijackers were granted access to military training bases in Arizona where they had access to flight simulators and twin engine aircrafts. There's a ot more to it, but long story short, it was an excuse to invade the middle east. Stop thinking how they did it, but instead think who and why.
Yeah, stop thinking "how" because if you try to come up with a plausible answer, you will bleed out of your eyes.
I think your tinfoil hat fell off.
"Guest" – ...you must be a Saudi....
Straw man argument. I dare you to produce one shred of evidence that hasn't been thoroughly debunked.
...as per my original message, I encourage everyone (including your uneducated-self) to look it up on your own! It sounds like you live in the US anyways....man are you guys getting it bad over there...and it's only getting worse. While you're at it, look up HAARP, Rothschild Family, Goldman Sachs, and all the other evidence Americans are so blind to see. Your own government cares more about money than its own people...and you're oblivious to it...
"Look it up on your own". Yeah, because the Internet is filled with "proof" to back up your ridiculous ideas.
No conspiracy nut is interested in truth or science. The most complicated, ridiculous, unlikely explanation is eagerly embraced by them no matter what. But that's fine, since they are the laughing stocks of the country, and will always be so.
TOM – ladies and gentlemen, here's another example of an American, victim of his own government yet blaming "conspiracy theorists" instead of accepting the fact he's been taking it in the @$$ with a gloomy-looking future ahead. I feel bad for you, but keep blaming the rest of the world...the good U. S of A's "land of opportunity" is loooooong gone....I wouldnt want to accept it either.
I assume you have some proof of this and will shortly post your links to back it up? I will wait patiently
It is true that the governments which have come to power during the Arab Spring give many Islamists a voice in government, and this can lead to the truly extreme elements being marginalized. However, there is the corresponding danger that these governments could become extreme themselves, along the model of Iran, and ultimately become safe havens for terrorists instead. In my opinion, the only real way to combat this is to keep the focus on the terrorist groups. It is simply not practical for us to overthrow every regime that turns a blind eye to terrorist training camps, but the terrorists themselves are fair game.
Let us now turn our attention towards India and nip the terrorists in the bud over there. We are all aware that the center of gravity of terrorism is shifting towards New Delhi, India.These gorups are dangerouse and Neo Nazis. They have been the inspiration behind the recent massacres in Norway and Wisconsin USA. In the name of our Lord.
TERRORIST GROUPS IN INDIA
• RASHTRIYA SWAYAM SEWAK SHANG (R.S.S.)
• VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD
• HINDU MUNNANI
• ARYA SAMAJ
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• BHARATIYA JANATA PARISHAD
• SANT SAMITI
• HINDU MAHASABHA
• BAAJRANG DAL
LEADERS: L.K. Advani/ Ashok Singhal/ Bala Saheb Devaras/ Bal Thackeray/ A.B. Vajpayee/ Savarkar/ Baikunnth Lal Sharma “Prem”/ Balraj Madhok/ The Shankaracharya of Puri, Niranjan Dev Theerth/ Rama Gopalan/ Variyar – Vishwan Hindu Parishad/ Dharmalinga Nadar/ Cho Ramaswamy
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OH NO – this idiot Zakaria is back - Say it isn't so!!!!1
Towel Heads is what Towel Heads do.
Your ignorance and ignorance is showing.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/11/warning-shots-fired-as-cairo-protesters-storm-u-s-embassy-walls/?hpt=hp_t1
HOW DO CHRISTIANS FEEL IN EGYPT FAREED??????
However illogical or silly it may sound, a person of middle-eastern descent, spouting something like on 9/11 has only got to be a CNN ratings play. People are shallow bigoted idiots and CNN is shamelessly capitalizing on that.
Zakaria, Dude, learn when to shut up. Really.
He is not of middle-eastern descent.
Why is this author being published on CNN?
I I wish those commenting would focus on the issue instead of personal attacks on Zakaria. His point is that we should not be complacent or engage in victory lap running and triumphant chest beating on the defeat and elimination of Al Qaeda. He has got a good point. Al Q. will be rearing it's ugly head from under the rocks any chance it gets; thankfully, drones will be overhead watching. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance by drones.
Agree. The volume of personal attacks – most without any apparent basis – on this comments board is disturbing.
All Islam no matter the sect is consumed with hatred and death.
If you dishonor – death.
If you are with Isreal – death
Say something disagreeable with ala or the koran – death.
American – death.
Like a dog, eat a pig – death.
Disagree with their point of view – death.
They are celibrating in Cario over 911. They are celibrating – death.
That's all their culture knows, believes and is infactuated with.
Fareed Zakaria is a pakistani jihadist who probably stole this article from an intern who S*cked his p3nis last week.
Yeah, there's an intelligent post.
To Aldo: If you are unable to comment in an intelligent and civil manner, why bother to bore the rest of us with your crass, ugly thoughts?
When American firepower takes out a key Al Qaeda leader and there is no populist support for retaliation, you know that the people enslaved by Al Qaeda have awakened.
Like all cult organizations, Al Qaeda thrives only while it enslaves people in ignorance.
If I was Sarah Palin I'd drive over to the nearest steel mill and hurl myself into a vat of molten metal. Pfft... all gone !!
So Fareed, did you think of this yourself, or did you copy it from someone else?
bob, he was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before commenting.
The headline was "Worrying signs about Al Qaeda." This article really had nothing to do with that. Another stupid, misleading headline used to suck in readers. You kill your own credibility every time you do that, CNN et al. Idiots.
The Aghori or Aghouri is a Hindu cult that is considered to have split off from the Kapalika order in the fourteenth century AD. They have cannibalistic rituals. The streets of northern Indian cities are littered with followers of this cult carrying a kapala, which is a cup made from a skull! These bizarre people will eat anything from rotten food to animal faeces. In order to achieve the highest citadel of enlightenment, the Aghori will perform horrendously crude rituals. The finality of their rituals is attained from eating the decaying flesh of a human.
Hmmmmmmmmm, where have I read this before?
az, Mr. Zakaria was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before commenting.
So Fareed, who gets the real credit for this article ?
Willie12345, Mr. Zakaria was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before commenting.
There are NO Boogymen Terrorists...just our administrations.
THINK:
How some guy operating from a cave on the other side of the planet, totaly fooled the most expensive,armed and advanced security ,spy and intelligence system in the World, to do the 9-11 attacks ,we some how just cant figure out.
U.S. intelligence can tell you what a Taliban member in Afganistan is having for dinner tonight, but some how they dident have a clue what so ever that something was up, prior to 9-11?
Just who is naive enough to believe that?
Think people.......Think.
The facts don't support your conclusions! Sorry!
Not to mention that the supposed terrorist used to work for the CIA and his Father is George Bush's best friend.
Osama Bin Laden knew George Bush personally for over 25 years, and pappa and GW currently make a whole lot of money selling weapons to BOTH sides of the Middle East with their company The Carlyle Group.
Ho ho ho ...
I am so SICK of the middle east. Sick of hearing about them. They will NEVER stop fighting each other. We should pull out and pull our money out. They have enough oil money. They have to be willing to form a peaceful society. We cannot do it for them. They have to want it. We should support Israel and let them destroy each other. We need to learn that we cannot fix their problems. Why CNN only reports on politics and the middle east is probably why their ratings are down. There are other countries on the planet. It would be refreshing to hear news from, Ireland, Costa Rico, Wales, Australia, Iceland, Africa. Please stop the madness.
Tired, your handle says it all. You're not only tired, you're a very unhappy person. Try getting into therapy, please!
Still employed? So much for journalistic integrity from the author and his employer. And yes, the is no greater failing then taking the work of another, and calling it your own. What amuses today is if that right wing news FOX channel had a commentator commit the same crime, it would be over reported to the degree this was under reported.
How original.
Amused, he was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before commenting.
Fareed is a journalist of impeccable ethical integrity! In other news...A cow just jumped over the moon.
Jack, as stated repeatedly, Mr. Zakaria was cleared of those charges. Please make sure you know what you're talking about before commenting.
If the article actually was informatiove I would have questioned if the writer had copied from someone else's work. History does tend to repeat.
Robert, Mr. Zakaria was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before defaming someone's character.
In other news, an al Qaeda leader in Yemen destroyed yet another drone bomb, detonating it just as it fell from the sky and landed near him.
More fear mongering by the Wests media. Nothing to see here. Move along.
skip, if you don't mind, I'll retain the right to choose what I think is worth reading.
I appreciate Fareed's intelligent, informed and fairly objective assessments of very complex situations. No other columnists that I've read have expressed themselves as well. Perhaps he and Obama have the advantage of growing up in a different culture, so they see things that we, the American public, miss.
I agree with the "Fareed is an idiot" contingent. People became complacent about Al Qaeda because idiots like Fareed kept telling them Al Qaeda was not a threat. And the real reason Al Qaeda is diminished now has nothing to do with Al Qaeda shifting to civilian targets or the "Arab Spring", (oops...make that "Islamist Spring")....It's because we crushed them in Afghanistan and killed all their leaders.
Fareed is an idiot. CNN's ratings are bad precisely because they have idiots on their TV shows.
jdk, calling Mr. Zakaria names won't make you any more intelligent, but it will prove you lack education or class.
alqaeda is not weak because of killing of some of its leaders...the group is basically a network of cells having well entrenched beleif and each group act independently to achieve their aim.
drone and special operation has made them more decentralised and difficult to defeat....now its not even possible to negotiate a ceasefire with this group..if you want an example then take the case of alqaeda in iraq an organisation america failed to defeat...each day new independent cells are being formed and these cells are targetting local enemies.
when there are no more local enemies they will start operating against foregn ones.
Fareed Zakaria is a very insightful and very intelligent columnist. I love everything that he has ever written and I look for his articles whenever I can. He has apologized and I forgive him completely. Glad to see that he is back writing. As usual, this article is compelling and thought-provoking too. Keep it up Fareed. We all need to be forgiven for something or other. I will always look for your articles.
You must be a member of the Sikh society too.
nolongerarepublican, once again, your comment says more about you than the person you criticized.
I agree with you, Dave. I was fortunate to hear Fareed in person at Foothill College several years ago. I've been a fan ever since.
So, let's see if I have this straight. Al Qaeda is becoming less of a factor because the dominant ideology of entire nations is now insufficiently differentiated from its own. But don't worry because this expansion of this ideology from a few guys in caves to nations of millions does not portend a larger struggle.
journalists get caught plagiarising all of the time. I don't know why they get treated like murderers in the media, and clearly by commenters in this thread. zakaria is a smart guy who made a mistake. get over it imo
pete b, I agree with your statement. With that said, I do want to let you know, Mr. Zakaria was cleared of the charges that he plagiarizer another writer.
is this fareeds mother?
Is Fareed paying your rent bill? How about your car note? Stop defending that no-integrity piece of crap. He is nothing more than a secret jihadist living in America. Fareed thinks he's high class since he's married to a white chick.
Someone from India giving advice to the US, on everything, and Americans actually paying him.
India????? One of the worst and oppresive places on earth?
Laughable.
India is a democracy and one of our closest allies. Your comment exposed your lack of understanding of world affairs.
Given that Fareed has been outed as a plagerist how can we take seriously anything that is written by him.
Hera, he was cleared of those charges. Please keep up with the latest news before defaming Mr. Zakaria's reputation.
So was OJ
@texcal68, i've been out of the loop for a few days. What's thew latest? Has Zakaria been cleared of the charges? It was a little unclear in your previous postings at 2:05 , 2:09 , 2:21 , 2:22 , 2:31 , 2:34, 2:50 , 3:04 , 3;21 , 3;48 , 4:07 , 4;12 , 4;21 , 4:22 , 4:24 , 4;27 , 4;55 , 5:36 and 5:39. Can you maybe clear it up for us when you find some free time to sit down at the computer and post. It seems like you're quite busy doing other really important stuff. Thanks Buddy!
Doesnt this cut against Fareed's position on containment of Iran? The truth is that a small group of people can inflict vast damage whether they are a part of goverment, have connections to government, or depending on how weaponry is stored (such as in Syria) are enemies of government.
Zakaria – absolutely brilliant – those who really know what is going on have known all along that the threat still exists. By the way Fareed – thanks for the "Arab Spring" – working really great in Egypt – Coptic Christians murdered byfundamentalist Muslims, now the USEmbassay stormed today – great stuff this Facebook Revolution, Arab Spring, supported tooth and nail by Obama, our inept State Dept and by media idiots like Zarkaria
Why is CNN once again publishing stories written by an admitted plagiarist? Nothing Mr. Zarakia has ever written, or ever will write, has any credibility for me - or indeed, most people. Have some guts, do the right thing, and get rid of Mr. Zakaria, CNN. Let him go trot out his third world anti-American views elsewhere (that is, if anyone else will have him).
what a religion is islam. If they aren't fighting each other they are fighting someone else. the religion itself needs to be outlawed in the US. Islams agenda IS to takeover and control. These followers are brainwashed from tot children on up.
It must be nice to be paid to write articles that state the obvious using material that we have all seen before.
right on.
Zakaria is now officially a joke.....joining the ranks of other admitted plagiarist hacks like Stephen Glass and Ben Domenech.
It says a lot about the credibility issues of CNN when they are willing to keep an admitted liar in their employ.
CNN is now right up there with Faux News and MSNBC when it comes to biased skewed opinions presented as news.
CNN should be ashamed.
Fareed is dead wrong about this.. to the point of lying because he knows this story is full of untruths. radical muslims are now more radical than ever. radical muslims control more poeople and more territory now than they did 11 years ago. al qaeda may not be much of a threat anymore but every middle eastern muslim now is, whether they are affiliated with al qaeda or not. it doesn't matter anymore. contrary to Fareed's statements, the term "al qaeda" has grown into the symbol for all radical, militant muslims as far as the west is concerned. all of these extremist groups are networked in some way or another. they all hate us and want us dead, and there are millions of them.
This article is just another stereotype, fear Al Qaeda, "the world is in the hands of a small band of terrorists" article. It contains all of Fareed's typical talking points on this subject. There is, however, a major factor here that he never talks about: MONEY. Osama Bin Laden was the son of a wealthy businessman. His gripe with the west was that they were flexing their muscle in the Middle East and using their power to take resources and wealth, while meddling in Middle Eastern affairs. His goal, if you remember that long ago, was to Destroy the American ECONOMY. That's why he picked the World Trade Center, because it was a symbol of Western Commerce. He just used the whole Jihad thing to get young muslims to blow themselves up in the name of his cause. Lucky for him, there are tens of millions of uneducated, ignorant, unenlightened muslim men who are still living in the time of the crusades; willing to kill at the drop of a camel deuce for something as little as insulting the comic book character they called a prophet. Of course, Fareed will never admit that his fellowmuslims act like this, so he has to hide behind terms like "Arab Spring" or "revolution" instead of telling the truth: Shiites killing Sunnis (Lybia, Syria, Iraq), Sunnis killing Shiites (Saudia Arabia, Bahrain), Christians and Jews being killed by Muslims (every Middle Eastern country except Israel). The only country in the muslim nation that doesn't fit this is Palestine and only because it doesn't even exist.
Fareed is just spouting the same in the box type talking points, but then again, he did win the copy/paste award for journalism recently.
al Qaeda is stronger than ever: it just carved itself a juicy part of ME thanks to "Arab Spring" and West's complacency and liberalism! Judging by the bloom, the fruits of that spring will be abundant!
Here is a fact. Fareed plagiarized someone else.
This makes him a cheating idiot.
If there was any credibility there, it's gone now.
Interesting how this does not bother liberals or CNN. Shame on you!
Don't let yo ignant bias make u think that everything u donet like is liberal. CNN is conservative.
Fareed,
I think today should not be focused on the perpetrators of this event but the heroes and their willingness to do whats right for the very fundamental life style and fee living that allows people the right to choose their path in life, religious or profession.
As you pointed out the problem isn't gone but give those who died for our way of life a bit of a moment of recognition.
David
I only clicked on this article so I could say that Mr. Zakaria shouldn't have a job. He violated one of the most basic ethics, he stole someone's work. His career should be over. I will never read another word he writes. Boo this man. Boo him to obscurity.
There is so much that is wrong, fanciful and even arrogant about this article I don't know where to begin. But let's start at the end, where Zakaria speaks of Al Qaeda saying:
" . . . that struggle is dying as Arab countries open themselves up and include Islamists within their politics."
"open themselves up"?
Does Zakaria misuse the English that he is rather fluent in, or does he, more than likely, truly believe that the Muslim Brotherhood has become more open and inclusive?
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, both took their lead from Adolph Hitler and the Nazis after World War II. They sought political and armed resistance against Israel and America.
And they haven't given up yet. But Zakaria asks us to believe that the Brotherhood has somehow opened up the political dialog in Egypt, given its fanatically virulent anti-Western, anti-Jewish history.
The elephant in the room is that Islam is, in fact, not a religion but a fascistic system of control over all facets of a person's life. But no Western government leader has the spine to say so.
Islam is more like joining the military than it is like becoming a Methodist.
Hey Fareed, don't most journalists usually get fired for plagiarism?
We have no problems in this country with Muslims they are welcome with open arms..Obama loves them..
In reality, al-qaeda is finished. The organization that bloodied America on 9/11 no longer exists. These various jihadi splinter orgs that have been popping up, lately in Yemen/Somalia and North Africa, they call themselves al-qaeda to give themselves cachet and notoriety, to instill fear, to make people sit up and take notice of what they are doing. When Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden started al-qaeda it was supposed to be the vanguard of an islamic army, but their army never materialized and their vanguard has long since been destroyed. So long as we keep giving the name and idea of al-qaeda significance and attaching all this fear and all these ideas that are associated with it, people will call themselves that, because it symbolizes the only real successes of their jihad so far. But the actual members of al-qaeda from back when it was a real danger are all dead and the world has changed so dramatically, that organization can never come back.
More like "Zakaria diminished, but not gone". Good to see him writing again but it will take a lot of insight and hard work, along with some time before I can give his views the high esteem I once reserved only for his comments.
why is Fareed Zakaria still with CNN? He should be fired for plagiarism. He's proven to not be credible in the past.
Zakariah is a mouth piece for the globalists. He always spews a few lies mixed in with some truths according to the script.
This is the same thing we have always seen: "BE AFRAID! THE BOOGEYMAN STILL EXISTS! HE'S OUT THERE! WAITING!"
It's the kind of scaremongering the media is known for. If Americans were dumb enough to listen to people like this, (and they were whenever Bush was president) they'd never leave the house and they'd be stocked up on duct tape, plastic sheeting and guns.
Shame on this 'writer' for trying to exploit a day like 9/11 in a way to make Americans afraid again whenever this day brings up such painful memories.
There is a specific danger with this, 'Never Forget! The enemy is always out there!' approach to 9/11. It's that Americans live in fear and cling to the past instead of moving forward the way we should have afterward. Bush's response caused infinitely more damage to this country than the attacks themselves did on 9/11. We're still feeling it economically, politically and internationally. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous.
Not only is this not very well written, it's assuming that people have become complacent about a situation they couldn't forget about if they TRIED. The upside? I got suddenly nostalgic for my high school newspaper who was fond of the same quality of writing as we saw in this opinion piece: "Closing the cafeteria water fountain: WHO IS TO BLAME AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU as a student."
Fareed, you assume too much. About America, about Americans, about your readers. You assume way too much in general and that's the problem with this. As Americans, we are still paying out the nose to continue to fight Al Qaeda. We continue to lose our brothers and sisters in battle in Afghanistan. We continue to have bases set up all over the world and, more importantly, we have given up our privacy and much of our freedom so that the government can justify the continued battle against the rag-tag group of terrorists who are 'always going to be laying in wait for the moment that America lets its guard down...'
What a laugh. Americans used to accept fear as part of life, live in an intelligent way and they were always prepared for the worst. Bush and his goons turned this country into a prison and they haven't even thwarted any 'terrorist' attacks of any true weight as far as I know with those billions of dollars in gathering intel, building a system to spy on their own citizens, etc. You know why? THERE WERE NO OTHER ATTACKS. They did enough damage in one day and Bush's response did exactly what they wanted him to do: Made bad decisions that ended up crippling the country economically and taking the privacy and freedom away from U.S. citizens.
No more scaremongering, please. No more of this senseless, 'BE AFRAID' kind of editorials. If you think Americans have become complacent or lax, you're insane.
If you want to talk about exploiting 9/11, look no further than the GOP.From Guilliani (who was only seen "bravely" walking the streets of New York on 9/11 because he ignored advice of everyone and kept his emergency headquarters in the WTC even after it had been bombed eight years earlier) to pathological liar Paul Ryan. You know Paul, the guy who repeatedly voted against health care to First Responders and couldn't even talk about his marathon time without exaggerating by over an hour.
Cue invasion of US Embassy by Islamic radicals...
Oh no! Worrying signs?!? Well then, perhaps the TSA should start not even giving our shoes back.
Seriously though, haven't we had enough of this? Instead of worrying about signs, how about disbanding the TSA and just throwing anybody in jail who even asks if we're feeling safer yet? How about a law that makes it legal to kick anyone in the crotch as hard as you want who says "Remember 9/11"?
Yeah, all those stupid people crying over loved ones they lost. Get over it already. Who cares if you don't have a father anymore?
I truly hope your entire family dies in the next attack.
I wonder where he plagiarized this article from...
Did Zakaria write this all by himself? Or did he steal it from somebody else? He shouldn't have been temporarily suspended after his second offense. He should have been terminated. He's a serial plagiarist.
Al-Qaeda...hmmm
Has Mitt Romney, or Paul Ryan been to Southern California lately?? Something else that might be scary is large areas around LA region reported a foul smell Monday morning..over all of Southern California.big big area... A strong rotten eggs smell...That could be sulfur which smells like rotten eggs and there was a strong smell of rotten eggs before the New Madrid fault let loose with a 9.0 earth quake ....So what if Southern California, including the LA area is hit with a really big quake..a 9.0.. that area could have a 8.5 -9.0 quake..That would be a real mess..
Love Fareed Zakaria's book and perspective. Welcome back.
So the point is, not to worry so much about (just) Al Queda – as we see today in Egypt.
Isn't this guy a sand niggger? He is probably one of them.
CNN I am sure you can find another political pundit who doesn't plagiarize.
nuff said
AlQaeda is an *ideology*, an idea. Not a club or organization that you may pin down and crush. As long as there is fundamentalist hatred against the West and Israel it will be reborn again and again. You cannot destroy that with bombs. You may kill dozens, hundreds of members but it will be back, eventually.
To face a threat from radical religious factions one needs to be a lot more smart and subtle than a moron like Dubya.
it is not nearly al quaida as it is islam which keeps spawning all sortsa terror outfits. without defeating islam, the religion/ideology, terror can not end. of course, fareed does not want you to know that.
TD with DTs not only can you not spell simple words but you have no clue as to what you assert (look this up in the dictionary for meaning). You really show ignorance or are you just buzzziiinnnn on some good stuff?? Never mind I dont want to know.
Fareed likes things such as worry and theft.
Good article. Where would I look for the original?
'...ideological struggle'... The struggle seems alive and well here in the USA, the UK, Europe, Africa and the Far East. All Imams deny there is a problem with extremism and Islam. It's all islamophobia don't you know. Al Qaeda is not the problem. Islam is the problem and we're no closer to solving it's perpetual Jihad problem.
All Imams deny there is a problem? Have you read the postings and websites by moderate muslims that decry the extremists? Have you read the speeches by Imams who talk about how terrible the terrorists are? I guess not - you prefer a fantasy world where Islam, not terrorists, is the enemy. It is easier for you to blindly assume all muslims are potential terrorists than it is to open your eyes and realize that the world is more complicated than that.
I won't try to convince you - I've tried with others and failed. It is easier and more comforting for some to believe that all muslims are really anti-American than it is to face their real fears - that as more and more muslims enter this country, the power and influence of Christianity is diminishing. Islam will never replace it as the dominant religion, but in a few decades Islam might hold as equal influence. That terrifies so many people - they equate Christian values with American values, so they see this as an ant-American agenda (forgetting that America is supposed to be NON-religious in the first place). So afraid are these people that they cannot even understand how un-American their own intolerance is.
What is CNN's standard for cheating? Why is this man being published on CNN?
Regardless of his talents, he cheated. Is there no other worthy person waiting for the chance to work at CNN?
Is this the best CNN has to offer?
I would like to hear about the author's view on whether or not honest, hard working individuals would be better employed as authors rather than one who cheats.
Does this mean that Pakistan is now officially our friend
Didn't read the article because I have options and would rather read original content than stolen. Just felt the need to voice my displeasure that CNN has not terminated this hack's contract. When I was in college people were dismissed for plagiarizing. In the workplace I've never seen tolerance for the like. Why should we mass distributed editorials from Zakaria which are much more impactful than someone's college paper or pedestrian work assignment. We should expect better from a news organization. Its not a surprise CNN is struggling to keep viewers.
he's stinkin' up the joint.
Al-Qa'ida may be a marginal group for the "Arab Spring" but what about radical Islam in general?
Just today, the black flag of Islam was hoisted over the US Embassy in Cairo. In Libya, the US Diplomatic Mission was stormed...again by men carrying the black flag.
Why are we so focused on one group and not the whole movement?
Because thugs in Cairo are not going to plot to bomb the United States. The worst they could do is force us to cut ties with Egypt - and that's not a good bet either.
We SHOULD pay attention to riots in the Arab Spring countries. Their unemployment rates are astronomical, and desperate people look for scapegoats. But for all their blustering, they are not going to orchestrate a real terrorist threat of any sort. The ones that we should worry about are the ones who can (like al Qaeda), and it seems like they are losing power in most parts of the world.
This guy is a hack and a plagiarist but he is from the Blue Tribe so I shall defend every word that he lifted from another journalist because I am a partisan fool and have no integrity.
You ARE a fool. I do care if he plagiarizes, but I care more about the story and analysis than who wrote it. The bearer of the message is different than the message itself - and the message is the one people should be discussing. You seem to think (in your faux-partisan attempt at sarcasm) that only liberals should care about this article, because the author is a liberal and (to read the attacks) sometimes passes others' works off as his own. That sort of argument is idiocy at its finest. We should ALL care about al Qaeda's status, regardless of whether the person who writes the article supports Obama or despises him or even has a neutral view.
If you disagree with the article's conclusions, that is fine. But to dismiss contents of the article because of the author is, well, stupid.
al Qaeda does not exist as an actual terrorist unit. "The Cell" is merely the codename intelligence uses to refer to whichever fundamentalist muslim group is currently in our crosshairs. CNN keeps talking about as if it were some sort of evil organization, when in reality it's no different than calling them "the bad guys".
Did you plagiarize this Fareed? How does cnn still allow you to write for it?
What to do, Fareed, what to do....? Well, maybe Obama could start by giving al-Qaeda....an apology?
Farheed, who did you copy this from?
Who did you cheat off to get in to those Ivy league schools?
For the rest of your life, your work will be a joke. You will be left to work for last place organizations like CNN, with the lowest ratings in over 20 years.
The author still has faith in the so called Arab Spring. It only proves that now Al Queda can now be in the government vs outside of the government.
I hate terrorism, violence and conflict.
Instead of killing each other, I hope the US government and her people contemplate and find out the real reason for 911 attack. While the victims have families and love ones, the Al Qaeda people have the same. Other than different culture, faith and mentality, the most terrifying fact is the resolution of the terrorists to plan ahead over 6 mouths, to train themselves and the readiness to die. That can only happen if people feel absolute hopeless.
It will be a better world if we can respect and accept each others culture, way of living and faith.
weird – seems like i've heard that opinion somewhere else
Zakaria is a cheater. Where did you copy this from? pravda?
Al-Qaeda may be diminished, but the other radical Muslim groups are alive and well. Just look how the Muslims celebrated 9/11 in Egypt and Libya. A US ambassador dead, along with two others and US property destroyed. Time to realize that the problem is not groups like Al-Qaeda but the "religion" of Islam itself.
Dear Fareed, I am simply a 61-yr old grandmother and not an authority on anything.
THANK YOU for helping me understand what goes on in the world in a way I can understand. You are my "GO-TO GUY" as the young people say. I truly admire and respect you for brilliant mind and the way you bring the "THINK TANKS" into our homes. I like that expression too! We all need someone we feel we can trust and connect with to understand what is going on and you are definitely that man. My late father, a brilliant, genius, chemist would call you his "GO-TO GUY" also and that's REALLY saying something. Thank you. My son is on his way to Afghanistan for his 3rd tour of duty to our great Nation. I really NEED to understand that situationi better and you help much so much.
THANK YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
The "Soviet Union" is greatly diminished too (unless you are Palin or Romney). Al Qaeda was a convenient whipping boy when the USSR went sour. Now what? Ecuador? Venezuela? Who is going to be the next ENEMY?
It should be China. Big time. China is a criminal nation that literally kills dissent by firing squad. China is state capitalism operated with Stalin-like fists. China is a much bigger threat to long term prosperity and peace than a few run amok oil sheikhs.
Oh. But Walmart has 1000 stores there. Huh. To think that Yeltsin could have saved the Soviet empire by buying his vodka from Sam Walton! If you doubt this... just look at how the USA treats Taiwan (compared to Netanyahoo's fiefdom.)
CNN brought him back into the fold because he's their chief anti-gun spokesman. Nobody panders to the anti-gun crowd like Zakaria, whether or not he uses someone else's previously published words and claims them as his own.
Alas, as Harvard’s Graham Allison has pointed out.... He seems to have learned his lesson as he is naming the author he is quoting from.
Fareed, you schmuck! Learn the facts!
Check out the new "9/11: Examine The Evidence – Experts Speak Out" film by Architects and Engineers For 9/11 Truth. It does an excellent job of addressing all evidence for controlled demolition of WTC 1, 2 and 7. 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out ( Free 1-hour version ) Watch it online.
On Youtube... /watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg
Who writes your stuff for you now, Fareed ?
So the copycat is back already? Wow. It seems it's no big deal to plagiarize these days. Even if you're caught, no one seems to care. Well, we care Fareed, even if CNN doesn't, and you have forever lost what little credibility you had. Clearly CNN has no standards if they let this thieving hack write for them again.
In the US we have our own ideological struggle – republicans vs democrats and always have had, the same as other nations have their differences with each other. Nothing ever changes, as we have power hungry people in all nations who want to rule in their own way, but they overlook the masses of their citizens who are poor and want peace and a way to make a living for their families, with no way to fight back other than a revolution, then many of them are killed by the ones in power who have the weapons. In the US we use radical propaganda, most untruthful, not weapons – yet. I think we have gutted our First Amendment "freedom of speech" portion, with being able to make all kind of remarks about people in regard to their nationality and religious beliefs. All it does is cause more hate throughout the world.
Why is Fareed Zakaria still with CNN? He writes about the obvious half the time and the other half blames the US for the antics of extremist. He seems to always have a reason or excuse for their behavior and uses those reasons to implore readers to have tolerance.
Classic Zakaria (though usually not this blunt/direct): Oh well, they wouldn't have blown up a bus or shot up the consulate if it weren't for that offensive movie (remember we are usually the religion of peace and rarely ever burn flags of other countries and have our children celebrating 9/11, for example). And, did you know, if such movies weren't made then not only would they not have to burn down buildings but it would prove to them that you infidels are obedient and fearful eh I mean tolerant.
I know people, this is not the topic of this article. My point is, Mr. Zakaria's point of view is no good. I don't care how educated a person is if his thinking is essentially equivalent to that of a rioter in Libya. There should be no tolerance ever for terrorism. Ever. Period. Fareed Zakaria is over rated, biased and sympathetic to extremist. I didn't say he supports them but anyone who cannot outright condemn their actions without making some excuse for their action is sympathetic to their cause. This article alas is about him stating the obvious...thank you Mr. Zakaria, I had no idea that one of the most extremist, hateful, murderous and more importantly well funded (i wonder by whom???) groups in recent history would still be around.
Bush has created a factory in the Middle East from where Al-Qaeida's #2s keep coming and Obama keeps shooting. Unlimited supply of #2s!!!
Fareed, I was very pleased to see you back. I appreciate your analysis and take on issues that is more grounded in reality than political spin. Thank you.
Hmmmmmmmm, where have I read this before?
Let us seize this opportunity and focus on India now with razor like precision.
Why?
Because the The American invasion of Afghanistan brought to the forefront the irrelevance of India as a nation. With a population of over 1.2 billion people there was no value that this nation could bring to the table. Their soldiers (ragtag) 1.2 million continue hiding in the trenches scared from Talibans. A few teenage Talibans invaded the country and held it hostage for days on end showing how useless India is. It was embarrasing for the world to observe this humiliation of a nation that was being touted as a regional power.
We continue to read with interest the thesis presented on CNN that "less is more" in a political context as applied to India. Although Mies Van Der Rohe adopted this in an architectural context, its economic and political connotations are indeed powerful. Empowering subjugated minorities in India by splitting it into smaller states would trigger uber economic demand for western nations who have given so much financial and technology aid to India with no return to show for the investment. We concur with this approach and find the premise to be on solid footing. Central Asian States (CAS) are a case in point on this successful approach. We need to understand that India has an unmanageable large population mired in poverty and we are spinning our wheels trying to feed it. It is also too big of a geographical unit to govern. Again, we saw how a few teenage talibans were able to invade it with a few BB guns. And that says a lot... in a negative way not only for a large unmanageable country like India but also for USA which is trying to prop it up against China. Besides, Americans cannot afford to look like losers in the midst of a terror war which has lasted for over ten years now.
Poor UNN should have lost his job to an educated indian. What does your topic have to do anything with the topic from the author? What have you been smoking from your cave, smells like shi****
Did that pucker up your @ss you dumb witted indian. You don't have the intelligence to engage in a debate? Go screw some cows and have some steaks and chill with some cow p!ss .. the indian national drink. You moron.
INDIA: S@X WITH COWS
In many Hindu temples there are sculptures depicting men having s@x not only with men but also cows. What is the meaning of this? Is not the cow sacred? If it is, then it should be worshipped not s@xually assaulted!
More plagarism........
ARE INDIANS UBER TERRORISTS OR WHAT???? Forget the GDP, focus on these murder statistics.
In India, millions of girls are strangled, slowly starved or simply tossed in the trash. Moreover, in India, at least 1,370 girls are aborted every day. As a comparison, some 250 Indians die every day in road accidents. Terrorists killed about six people, on an average, every day in 2009. In the last two decades of economic progress, 10 million girls have died as such in India.
SHAME ON INDIA AND ITS BARBARIC AND MEDIEVAL CULTURE !!!
Indians have killed more human beings (girls particularly) than Al Qaeda and Talibans put together.
ARTICLE SURE LOOKS LIKE A JOB APPLICATION FROM Mr. FAREED ZAKARIA TO PRES. OBAMA (for the position of the next US. Sec. of State)!
Here's why?
SO HOW AM I RIGHT?
While all along Mr. Zakaria has been trashing America and Americans during every 9/11 anniversary or FINDING AN EXPLANATION IN MUSLIM GRIEVANCES AGAINST THE WEST after every terrorist attack (anywhere in the world be it in London, or Mumbai, or Madrid, or Moscow or Bali……in short anywhere in the NON-MUSLIM World, now he seems to have turned the tables around, blaming the Islamists for their terror (FOR THE LARGE PART!!). I will say why I said "for the large part" below.
Likewise, while until recently he has been SINGING praises of the Arab Spring calling them moderates, democrats, even secularists and what not, now there again he seems to have turned the tables calling them fundamentalists!!!
What a realization by Mr. Zakaria on both these counts!!!!
And, I said for "the large part" above b'coz inspite of Mr. Zakaria's "DECEITFUL VOLTE-FACE" he cannot avoid his urge to YET AGAIN give credence to Muslim grievances.
Here's what he said above: "Al-Qaeda was viewed as a mortal threat to the United States and much of the civilized world because IT COULD HAVE BECOME THE SYMBOL OF PROTEST OF MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD against regimes they hated and a world order dominated by the West."
While that may be true, why is it that MUSLIMS ALONE REACT VOILENTLY TO THIS, even as the rest of the NON-MUSLIM World adopt a more peaceful show & tell approach.?
Also why should MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD be agitated against the US & NOT just the Egyptians alone, when Egypt is ruled by a dictator?
The all knowing Harvard & Yale Grad Mr. Zakaria (much like his EXTREMIST COUSINS!!!!) will never question why that’s so!
GOD SAVE AMERICA if this man happens to be our next US Sec of State.
Spare us your rubbish. India governed by right wing extremist Hindu brahmins is a bully and a trouble maker in that region. It has kept the neighbors behind due constant bickerings. India has always lived in the shadow of Muslim Pakistan and has been forever defined by Pakistan. Unfortunately, India had a chance at leadership and blew it. Pakistan has now taken over the reins and is running with it. Much to the chagrin of Indians. So be it. Destiny has dealt its hands and India is about to fold.
GPS.... thanks for the read. it seems that some people just dont get it. Things are getting out of control. diminished? I don't think so. It's not the person who does the act , it's the question as to who keeps on thinking up where and when and who , that is who needs to be found.
It is no secret that Hitler and his Nazi cronies sought inspiration from Indian extremist groups including the branding of his Nazi Party by adopting the Swastika, a traditionally Hindu symbol and representation of Hindu god Ganesha, as its marketing tool. The thesis being that like the Norwegian massacre, the Jewish holocaust orchestrated by Hitler was inspired by the inherently violent cult of Indian Hindus and the manifesto of its then extremist/terrorist groups still in existence today. These groups are now the successors to and carrying out the vision of Al Qaeda all over the world.
TERRORIST GROUPS IN INDIA
• RASHTRIYA SWAYAM SEWAK SHANG (R.S.S.)
• VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD
• HINDU MUNNANI
• ARYA SAMAJ
• SHIV SENA
• BHARATIYA JANATA PARISHAD
• SANT SAMITI
• HINDU MAHASABHA
• BAAJRANG DAL
New, More Dangerous Hindu Extremist Groups Emerge in India
Christians concerned as rightwing factions splinter to form militant outfits.
PUNE, India, October 29 (CDN) — After more than a decade of severe persecution, India’s Christian minority is growing increasingly concerned over the mushrooming of newer and deadlier Hindu extremist groups.
Gone are the days when Christians had to watch out only for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, which are closely linked with the most influential Hindu extremist umbrella organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). With voter support faltering for the RSS’s political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), moderate and extremist sections within the Hindu nationalist movement are blaming each other, and militant splinter groups have emerged.
Claiming to be breakaway factions of the RSS, new groups with even more extreme ideology are surfacing. The Abhinav Bharat (Pride of India), the Rashtriya Jagran Manch (National Revival Forum), the Sri Ram Sene (Army of god Rama), the Hindu Dharam Sena (Army for Hindu Religion) and the Sanatan Sanstha (Eternal Organization) have launched numerous violent attacks on Christian and Muslim minorities.
DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves..
Pause a moment, reflect: These events are actual events from history..
They really happened!!!
Do you remember? Gee...I didn't know this...did you???
1. On 6 June 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
2. On 5 September 1972 at the Munich Olympics, 11 athletes were kidnapped and brutally massacred by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
3. On 4 November 1979, the US Embassy in Iran was taken over and 66 Hostages were held captive for 444 Days by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
4. During the 1980's scores of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
5. On 18 April 1983 the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
6. On 23 October 1983 the U.S. Marine Corps. Barracks were blown up and destroyed, killing 241 Marines by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
7. On 12 December 1983 the U.S. Embassy was bombed by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!.
8. On 7 October 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
9. On 14 June 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a US Navy Diver (Robert Dean Stethem) while trying to rescue passengers was tortured and murdered by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
10. On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed, killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
11. On 26 February 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed for the “FIRST” time, killing 6 and injuring 1,042 by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
12. On 7 August 1998, the US Embassy in Kenya was bombed Killing 212 and injuring over 4000 by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM!
13. On 7 August 1998, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania was bombed, killing 11 and injuring 85 by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM!
14. On 12 October 2000, the U.S.S. Cole was blown up killing 17 US Sailors by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
15. On 11 September 2001, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers killing over 3000 Americans by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM.
16. In 2001, the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan with 1,935 dead and 17,025 wounded against DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!.
17.On 23 January 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and BEHEADED by DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!
18. On 5 November 2009, Major Nidal Hasan, a DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWER OF ISLAM killed 13 and wounded another 32 AMERICANS in a Massacre at Fort Hood Texas!
19. On 9 August 2012, an United States Soldier, Army Pfc. Naser Jason, a MUSLIM and DEVOUT FOLLOWER OF ISLAM, was convicted of collecting bomb-making materials for what he told authorities would be a "massive attack" on a Texas restaurant full of AMERICAN SOLDIERS was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
And now we can add the attacks on our Embassy's and the Death of our Ambassador !
INDIA: S@X WITH COWS
In many Hindu temples there are sculptures depicting men having s@x not only with men but also cows. What is the meaning of this? Is not the cow sacred? If it is, then it should be worshipped not s@xually assaulted! Hmmmmm....
Tragically, in India people are dying of hunger. Why are low caste poor Hindus prohibited from eating beef? People stop their cars, and sit for hours waiting for a cow to clear the roadway, thinking it to be sacred. In India cow meat is cheaper than other available meats. Instead of these Brahmins taking care of the low caste peoples of India, they are doing their best to save their "holy" cows instead. This is evil. According to Valmith's Ramayana, God Rama "ATE" meat. So then "why" have these Brahmins given up beef-eating? It's hypocrisy within their own religion
As long as Fareed Zakaria is plagarizing material from his interns, I don't give him no credibility. He would probably commit JIHAD against the US if it got him ratings.
America recruits more al Quaeda on a daily basis. USA hires terrorist to destabilize the Middle East and divide the people.
Alright look... this page isnt far off but it shows a lot of work and research in some departments... I myself have served in Afghanistan, a single tour ive seen what they are capable of... its nothing to josh about... everyday we lose more and more men and i lose friends day in and day out because of the Alqaeda... Egypt, Lybia, Yemen, Tunisia, Sudan, and Afghanistan,... all of these places are under Alqaeda's control... American flags are being burned all over that area... mainly becasue they are muslim comunities that no longer favor us... that is their wish but before long... we will have world war 3 on our hands! Which will indeed cause only more dept and more death.. more hate and more suffering among more than just one nation, but many! I understand where many of you come from but the main question is... what will you do to help confront this evil that has been attacking us nonstop for nigh on 11 years? i see so many people say they hate alqaeda yet u sit in your homes and do nothing while military powers in america and the family members go through loses... we are dying over seas! we aim for something that is called world peace!... well we are far from it right now.. the middle east is practically alqaeda territory... we are in a few countries... y cuz its all we can do... this force is stronger than we thought and now Germany, and Britain are suffering! ... a british base was attacked recently, and germany's embassy was attacked! we fight for a cause... help fight for that cause or the american dream will never become a reality! Thank you!
the worlds cold enough... i fight to protect not to kill... id die for anyone other than myself... what would you fight and die for?
Excellent content and well-written stylistically. Farreed is highly educated, as objective as any person could be expected to be, and commands a deep understanding of the Arab world and the Islamist thinking as well as a more general knowledge of politics.