Terrorism East of Lahore

Posts about terrorism in and east of Pakistan, and south of Egypt:

• "Thailand, Bomb, No Fatalities Reported"
  (February 13, 2011)
• "Bombs in Uganda: Islam, Martyrs, and Making an Impression"
  (July 12, 2010)
• "Pakistan, YouTube, Censorship and the Sixties"
  (May 20, 2010)
• "Pakistan Arrests (Alleged) Times Square Bomber's Financial Backers - By Jove! I Think They've Got It!"
  (May 15, 2010)
• "Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir Wins Election! Genocide? What Genocide?"
  (April 26, 2010)
• "Sudan, Women, Trousers, Culture and Common Sense"
  (September 7, 2009)
• "North Korea's City-Busting Nuke, a New Missile, and Diplomacy"
  (May 25, 2009)
• "Marriott, Ritz-Carlton in Indonesia Bombed: It Could Have Been Worse" (July 18, 2009)
• "India and Maoist Rebels: Echoes of the Worker's Paradise"
  (June 19, 2009)
• "Pakistan's Swat Valley: Civilians, Soldiers, and the Taliban"
  (May 31, 2009)
• "Pakistan; Nawaz Sharif; Multiculturalism; and a Skewed World View"
  (March 15, 2009)
• "Don't Like American Politics? It Could Be Worse"
  (March 2, 2009)
• "Guinea, Military Rule, and Terrorism: Beware Hasty Judgment"
  (December 29, 2008)
• "Pakistan, India, Mumbai, Nuclear Weapons, and Pashtunistan: Simple This Isn't"
  (December 27, 2008)
• "Bangladesh Arrests JMB Terrorists - You Thought American Elections Were Rancorous?"
  (December 25, 2008)
• "India, Pakistan, and the Mumbai Attack: Good News, Bad News"
  (December 9, 2008)
• "Mumbai, India, Pakistan and a Breath of Common Sense"
  (December 7, 2008)
• "Mumbai Attack Investigators Have Lashkar e Taiba Leader's Number: Literally"
  (December 2, 2008)
• "Mumbai, India's 9/11: Good News, Bad News, Conspiracy Theories, and a Little Common Sense"
  (December 2, 2008)
• "Mumbai, Terrorists in India, and Opinions"
  (December 1, 2008)
• "No Burial in India for Terrorists: Muslim Group's Gutsy Stand"
  (December 1, 2008)
• "Ten Mumbai Terrorists and Fifteen Toothbrushes: Disturbing Numbers"
  (December 1, 2008)
• "Mumbai, 9/11, Lashkar e Taiba, Al Qaeda, and Lessons (Not?) Learned"
  (November 30, 2008)
• " 'India's 9/11' - Who Did It?"
  (November 28, 2008)
• "Why Attack Mumbai? And, Why the Taj Mahal Hotel?"
  (November 27, 2008)
• "Gateway of India? Taj Mahal Hotel - in Mumbai? What - and Where - Are These Places?"
  (November 27, 2008)
• Bad Night in Mumbai: Islamic Terrorists This Time"
  (November 26, 2008)
• Bad Day in Guwahati (or Gauhati): Bombs, Fires, and Dead People"
  (October 30, 2008)
• "Terror East of Lahore"
  (September 17, 2008)
• "Indonesia, 'Allah Akbar,' and Muslim Tolerance"
  (August 22, 2008)
• "Terrorism: Still Not a Muslim Monopoly"
  (June 11, 2008)
• "Markets, Hindu Temples Bombed in Jaipur, India"
  (May 13, 2008)
• "Terrorism: Not a Muslim Monopoly"
  (April 6, 2008)
• "Terrorists as an Oppressed Class: That was Then, This is Now"
  (February 23, 2008)
• "The War on Terror: It's Not All Uneducated Muslims and Attacks on America"
  (February 23, 2008)
• "Tamil Terror? Bomb Blows up Bus in Sri Lanka"
  (January 15, 2007)
• "Indonesian Deradicalization Program Working: In Indonesia, at Least"
  (January 15, 2008)
• "The War on Terror: India Has Troubles, Too"
  (January 1, 2008)
• "The War on Terror: Not Just America's Problem"
  (December 31, 2007)

About This Blog's Focus

"Another War on Terror Blog" focuses, as the title says, on the War on Terror: which I see as the struggle between Jihadist Muslims and anyone they think isn't sufficiently Islamic. As far as I can tell, the Islam of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and like-minded organizations wants to impose its values and customs on the Islamic world: and to convert or destroy the rest.

Like it or not, what's at stake are the guarantees of individual liberty which began in 13th century Europe with the Magna Carta, and became global concerns after 18th century American and European revolutions.

The greatest obstacle to fundamentalist Islam, and the best chance we have of preserving individual freedom, is the United States of America. I am afraid that there is no other country with both the willingness to deal with the realities of this 21st century jihad, and the power to both defeat the Islamic zealots and help the victims of terrorism rebuild their countries.

That, and my being an American, will keep this blog focused on terrorism in and connected to the Middle East or Islam.