Comments on: Death toll climbs to 93 in Lakki Marwat blast http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: parqbench http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html#comment-1445 parqbench Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:17:42 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4879#comment-1445 juan, i wonder if you might comment on al arabiyya in some future post since you linked to them here. i've become much more conscious of unproblematically linking to news outlets lately--maybe it's because asad abu khalil (angry arab news service) is in the back of my mind, but i feel like any link to al arabiyya needs some kind of contextualisation or justification, especially since a reader like myself only has a cursory understanding of its stakes (but i know the stakes are there--i'm thinking in particular of this recent polemical post by abu khalil which contains a lot i disagree with, especially about iran, but makes good points about al arabiyya: http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/12/iran-revolution-versus-revolution.html) juan, i wonder if you might comment on al arabiyya in some future post since you linked to them here. i've become much more conscious of unproblematically linking to news outlets lately–maybe it's because asad abu khalil (angry arab news service) is in the back of my mind, but i feel like any link to al arabiyya needs some kind of contextualisation or justification, especially since a reader like myself only has a cursory understanding of its stakes (but i know the stakes are there–i'm thinking in particular of this recent polemical post by abu khalil which contains a lot i disagree with, especially about iran, but makes good points about al arabiyya: link to angryarab.blogspot.com

]]> By: Uzi http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html#comment-1442 Uzi Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:54:16 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4879#comment-1442 Hey Juan, <br /><br />Let me first say that I have been reading your musings and links religiously since I stumbled on to your website from Huffington Post. I quite enjoy it and really do agree with much of what you have to say and how you view the world. Keep up the great work. <br /><br />Secondly, the link you provided for Maliha lodhi article/video in this post os not working, I was wondering if you could give us some details so that I can find it. Hey Juan,

Let me first say that I have been reading your musings and links religiously since I stumbled on to your website from Huffington Post. I quite enjoy it and really do agree with much of what you have to say and how you view the world. Keep up the great work.

Secondly, the link you provided for Maliha lodhi article/video in this post os not working, I was wondering if you could give us some details so that I can find it.

]]> By: Teed Rockwell http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html#comment-1435 Teed Rockwell Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:15:31 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4879#comment-1435 I'm not sure we can do anything to support them. Our support is the kiss of death, as long as we continue the drone attacks. What I'm protesting, however, is that the American press gave so much coverage to the bombing, and no significant coverage to the protests. This is what prompts so many Americans to say "Where's the Muslim Outrage" ? No one covers the kind of active Muslims responses to Terrorism that can be found <a href="http://muslimbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/12/heres-muslim-outrage.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a> I'm not sure we can do anything to support them. Our support is the kiss of death, as long as we continue the drone attacks. What I'm protesting, however, is that the American press gave so much coverage to the bombing, and no significant coverage to the protests. This is what prompts so many Americans to say "Where's the Muslim Outrage" ? No one covers the kind of active Muslims responses to Terrorism that can be found Here

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html#comment-1429 Anonymous Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:29:43 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4879#comment-1429 Re the peace marches in 53 Pakistani cities. So ... what is the US doing to support them? What can we, as individuals, do to support them? I believe this is important and feel somewhat at sea about what I can do. Re the peace marches in 53 Pakistani cities. So … what is the US doing to support them? What can we, as individuals, do to support them? I believe this is important and feel somewhat at sea about what I can do.

]]> By: Jimbo http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html#comment-1428 Jimbo Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:20:56 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4879#comment-1428 Snce the Pakistani "Taliban" now has expanded beyond the frontier Wasiristan areas to include Punjabi and Salafist elements in Karachi, etc., their agenda doesn't seem to be simply responding to Predator attacks but to destabilize the already unstable Pakistani state. We could have a situation emerging where a majority of the population ends up opposing the Pakistan Taliban but are unable to stop a disintegration of the already weak Pakistani state apparatus probably with the connivance of the ISI in order to ensure a return toa Zia ul-Haq like regime. Snce the Pakistani "Taliban" now has expanded beyond the frontier Wasiristan areas to include Punjabi and Salafist elements in Karachi, etc., their agenda doesn't seem to be simply responding to Predator attacks but to destabilize the already unstable Pakistani state. We could have a situation emerging where a majority of the population ends up opposing the Pakistan Taliban but are unable to stop a disintegration of the already weak Pakistani state apparatus probably with the connivance of the ISI in order to ensure a return toa Zia ul-Haq like regime.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/death-toll-climbs-to-93-in-lakki-marwat.html#comment-1425 Anonymous Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:59:45 +0000 http://www.juancole.com/?p=4879#comment-1425 The father and daughter featured in the Aljazeera video also played a prominent role in a video about the Swat valley earlier this year in the New York Times:<br />http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/02/22/world/asia/1194838044017/class-dismissed-in-swat-valley.html The father and daughter featured in the Aljazeera video also played a prominent role in a video about the Swat valley earlier this year in the New York Times:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/02/22/world/asia/1194838044017/class-dismissed-in-swat-valley.html

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