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DESCRIPTION:In New York's "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy, xenophobes are ironically 
 protesting construction of a Sufi community center—even as Sufi mosques 
 and shrines are getting blown up regularly in Pakistan by the same 
 political forces that were behind 9-11. Imam Rauf of the planned center 
 (the Cordoba Institute), meanwhile, is being paid by the State Department 
 to go on good-will tours of the Islamic world.\n\nThe RAND Corp and various 
 neocon pundits have openly called for grooming Sufis (with their tolerant, 
 universalist and pacifist spirit) to oppose jihadism in Pakistan and 
 elsewhere. The Russians are already doing this, pouring money into Sufi 
 groups in Chechnya and the Caucasus. In Somalia, a Sufi order has actually 
 taken up arms against the local jihadi outfit, the Shabaab, which is 
 attempting to suppress them. They may have no choice but to do this, but it 
 could make them ripe for CIA/Pentagon intrigues.\n\nSufi orders played a 
 critical but little-recognized role in anti-colonial struggles (against 
 France in West Africa, Britain in Somalia, Italy in Libya, etc.). Today, 
 with the collapse of the left and secular nationalism in the Middle East, 
 how do we respond to the rise of jihadism (lubricated as it was by CIA 
 largesse in the '80s)? How do we offer solidarity to its targets without 
 playing into new imperialist intrigues and strategies?\n\nDiscussion by 
 Bill Weinberg, editor of World War 4 Report and producer for the Moorish 
 Orthodox Radio Crusade on WBAI-NY.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/28/18662548.php
SUMMARY:Bill Weinberg to speak in Oakland on sufism, jihad and imperialism
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/28/18662548.php
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