Pakistan: What's going on?

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Stephen Schwartz has a great piece over at Tech Central Station which points out Pakistan has turned a blind eye to Akram Khan Durrani, who is the political ruler of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and a Islamic radical who wants to place Pakistan under shari'a law, and have allowed him to visit Washington D.C. to seek political and financial support for his extremist ideas in a land that has seen enough jihadi's to last a lifetime. Its really amazing how a nation that supposed to be our ally is sitting on their duff while these harbingers of evil continue to galavant around the world and Pakistan spouting such hateful messages. Luckily, Schwartz has presented a clear and simple solution to the problem:

In fighting radical Islamist terror, both the U.S. and the UK should combine their domestic investigations with pressure on the Saudi and Pakistani governments to remove Wahhabi and neo-Wahhabi ideologues from their own state and other public structures. All financing of these preachers and practitioners of homicide must be cut off, and every leading representative of the networks should face legal punishment.

The beliefs that impel the Wahhabi War on the World have nothing to do with either political protest or deep religious beliefs. Normal protest, even when it becomes violent, increases and decreases in reaction to events. Intense Muslim commitment drives believers away from terrorism as much or more than toward it. The proliferation of Islamist extremism, like that of pro-Moscow Communism in the past, is dependent on money, a leadership structure, and the seduction of power. Cut off the money and the heads of the conspiracy and the threat will diminish immensely. Without the power represented by the Saudi state and the Pakistani military intelligence services, terrorist ideology will lose its ability to capture and pervert the minds of susceptible recruits.

Dialogue with terrorists and their enablers is not possible. The following message should be delivered to men like Durrani: the moderate Muslims of the world will be helped to defeat you -- you are doomed. It may not be too late for the U.S. authorities to stop and interrogate Durrani before he returns to his mischief at home.

Lets get to work stopping such folks.