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24 July, 2004
24 July 2004"The Taliban were not fighting Western culture, but traditional Afghan culture. Why forbid owning songbirds? Why ban kites? The rationale is common to all forms of fundamentalism: this world exists to prepare believers for salvation. The state’s role is not to ensure social justice and the rule of law, but to create opportunities — even through coercion — for believers to find salvation." Olivier Roy, author of Globalized Islam, writes about purity, Islamic evangelism and fundamentalism as teenage rebellion, in Pakistan's Daily Times.
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