Charles, here is Mamdani's response to your claim below (by the way, are you still procrastinating to actually read his book on 'Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror?' If yes, at least read this 10-page journal article of his on the same subject: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/sj6/mamdanigoodmuslimbadmuslim.pdf):
From: Mahmood Mamdani <mm1124@columbia.edu>
To: Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com>
Cc: Mahmood Mamdani <mm1124@columbia.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: Mamdani's Invention of American Foreign Policy?
Chambi,good to hear from you. The explanation of all phenomena is historical, including that of political terror. Violence with a religious justification - jihad, crusades, and so on - existed long before the American empire and will probably outlast it. My modest effort has been to understand the dialectic between America's efforts to wrap insurgency in a religious rhetoric ('jihad') in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and reaping a whirlwind thereafter.MahmoodOn Jan 9, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com> wrote:From: "Charles Makakala Jr makakalajr@yahoo.com [Wanazuoni]" <Wanazuoni@yahoogroups.com>
To: Wanazuoni - Informal Network of Tanzanian Intellectuals <wanazuoni@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 9:50 AM
Subject: [Wanazuoni] The Battle of Broken Hill and 100 Years of Jihadist Terror100 years ago this January there was a terror incident in Australia. The MO was very similar to what we observe in today's world. Suicidal intentions. Religious proclamations. Element of shock. Murders.Ah, those were much simpler days, before Mahmoud Mamdani invented American Foreign Policy as the reason for Jihadist activities. It is said that one can prove anything using history. Even truth.Enjoy.''Believing he would be killed, Gool Mahomed left a letter in his waist-belt which stated that he was a subject of the Ottoman Sultan and that, "I must kill you and give my life for my faith, Allāhu Akbar."...Mullah Abdullah said in his last letter that he was dying for his faith and in obedience to the order of the Sultan, "but owing to my grudge against Chief Sanitary Inspector Brosnan it was my intention to kill him first."Charles.------------ --------- --------- --------- -------'Black Cat/White Cat. It's a Good Cat If It Catches Mice.' - Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)__._,_.___
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