They were funding Salafist madrassahs, funding the Afghan Taliban, before the formation of the TTP in 2007, they were funding individual insurgent groups that conferred to their ideology. Just to bring you up to speed with time, here's how you can tell the extent of Salafist saturation that the Arab money has brought, in Pakistan, the cradle of Sufism, can you find a single person who will identify himself as a Sufi? It has almost become a curse word! This is because the Arab money is going into propagation of their sect through preaching, propaganda, literature and even war.
They do, I was talking about the single largest source of income, there are many other as well.
Icarus,please leave this discussion for some other thread..There are points i agree,but many things you say are more of stereotype than facts...
For example.... There is/was a non-barailwi,....non-sufi madrisah near my house and we regularly donated money to it...sometimes the whole running cost..
Reason being it was a madressah as in a religious school but the students were almost all orphans of afghan war or boys from families too poor to feed them or educate them,and were dumped inthe madrissah as families didnt want them....
Noe we had no control on what they grew up to be
About carricurum in the madrissah,it was darse nizaami.....which is being taught as it is in madrissahs for centuries...
Some of them returned to afghanistan after finishing their studies in that madrissah,and we know that as a matter of fact as we as community and family even funded their teavel back home as many of them hadent been to their villages in afghanistan since childhood and wanted to go back,but being young and new graduates of a madrisah , had no money..
Now if somebody comes round and blames us for supporting bad guys.. No we didnt....
The situation issame as 'khidr and moosa'.
When khidr killed a lovely child,saying he will grow up to be a tyrant..but moosa protested....
We were neither khidr nor moosa.
hahahah
