And starring Pervez Musharraf as Winston Churchill. From Reuters, with thanks to nevermindlv:
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – An iron curtain is descending between the West and the Muslim world, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf warned on Monday.
Political injustices, poverty and illiteracy are fueling religious fundamentalism and terrorism, he said in a speech while on a visit to Sweden, urging rich countries to help Muslim nations with investment and socio-economic reforms.
Most of Pakistan’s 150 million people are Muslims, and a third of them live in poverty.
Many people in the Islamic world “feel deprived, hopeless, powerless” and could be “indoctrinated by distorted views of Islam,” Musharraf said.
“A new iron curtain seems to be falling,” he said. “This iron curtain somehow is dividing the Muslim world on one side and the West on the other side. This is very dangerous,” he told Reuters in an interview after the speech.
“Muslim states are seen as the source of terrorism,” he said, warning of new “depths of chaos and despair” and more “terrorism and an impending clash of civilizations” if the West, particularly the United States, and Muslim countries failed to eradicate the root causes of anger and resentment. …
“If you manage to finish off one organization like al Qaeda … you’ve chopped off a branch of that tree, but the tree will still grow. You must identify the root, and the root happens to be political disputes … the root happens also to be illiteracy and poverty.”
No. The root is jihad ideology. Until that is recognized, new terrorists will continue to stream out of the madrassas in Musharraf’s own country. The idea that all this comes from poverty has been debunked again and again.