World Challenges for the XXIst century

The results on the poll on Geert Wilders (Do you agree with the English decision of declaring Wilders “persona non grata”?) are:

• A total and absolute error: freedom of speech must be preserved 94% (15 votes).
• While I think that freedom of speech is important, I believe that religious sensitivities must be respected 6% (1 votes)
• Who is Geert Wilders? 0% (0 votes)

This week poll is about the agreement between the Talibans and the Pakistani Government in Swat’s valley. Fareed Zakaria discusses it and says that while the Talibans are “bad guys”, we don’t have to worry about them as they don’t want to achieve the Global Caliphate:

The groups that advocate these policies are ugly, reactionary forces that will stunt their countries and bring dishonor to their religion. But not all these Islamists advocate global jihad, host terrorists, or launch operations against the outside world — in fact, most do not. Consider, for example, the most difficult example, the Taliban. The Taliban have done all kinds of terrible things in Afghanistan. But so far, no Afghan Taliban has participated at any significant level in a global terrorist attack over the last ten years–including 9/11. There are certainly elements of the Taliban that are closely associated with Al Qaeda. But the Taliban is large and many factions have little connection to Osama bin Laden. Most Taliban want Islamic rule locally, not violent jihad globally.

Of course, the help they can give the Global Caliphate’s supporters or the pledge of alliegance to Bin Laden are for me significant.

These two videos can also be of help (2nd one seen on Incognito’s blog):

So what do you think?

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