He names Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as the ones facing this choice. And it is by no means clear which one they will choose. “Muslims are the victims of global jihad: K P S Gill,” from Rediff (thanks to Twostellas):
The Institute for Conflict Management, the world’s premier open source for research and data on terrorism in South Asia, on Sunday received the M L Sondhi Prize for International Politics, 2007.
The award, which includes a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000 and a plaque, has been instituted by the M L Sondhi Memorial Trust and the M L Sondhi Institute for Asia-Pacific Affairs.
Speaking at the award ceremony at the Habitat Centre in New Delhi, President of the Institute for Conflict Management and former Punjab top cop K P S Gill said that current assessments of international Islamist terrorism were afflicted by “gross imbalances of judgments and response”.
He added that Islamist terrorism was, in fact, ‘imploding’.
“The reality, across the world today is that while non-Muslims are the proclaimed targets of the Islamist extremists and the so-called global jihad, it is Muslims who are its principal victims,” he said.
He further noted, “Many Muslim fundamentalist states — including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan — are being thrown into direct conflict with the Islamist extremists, and the imperatives of self-preservation are soon going to force their leaderships to make drastic choices between one of just two options: to throw in their lot with the jihadis and take their countries back into the 16th century, or to dismantle their own extremist Islamist agendas and embrace modernisation, democracy and the ideologies of freedom and religious coexistence.”…