Muslim Radicals

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Netherlands, mirror of Europe

One shouldn't forget that the Netherlands is one of the seven founding countries of the European Union 50 years ago. However, many Dutch citizens don't want the enlargement of the Union.
One should look at the Netherlands to understand what is going on in Europe. The Netherlands has an image of a very tolerant and socially advanced country. It was one of the first to legalise euthanasia and marihuana, for instance. However, all that changed three years ago, when the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim radical. Many Dutch people look at Muslims with suspicion and believe there are too many immigrants in their country.

The result was the rise of the Liberal Party, which defends the expulsion of Muslims from the Netherlands. But, at the same time, many Dutch people don't trust those parties that have governed up to this moment, Christian Democrats and the Labour Party.

This rising tendency towards extremist parties can be felt all over Europe. One shouldn't forget that the Netherlands is one of the seven founding countries of the European Union, 50 years ago. However, now many Dutch people think that they have nothing to do with Romania or Turkey, and they don't want the enlargement of the Union. That is why they voted no to the European Constitution.

The Netherlands has now, like France, a serious identity problem, wandering who they are and where they go. After all, the same problem that starts to affect the whole European Continent.

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Egypt's top Muslim clerics have attempted to distance Islam from the practice of female genital mutilation, saying the religion does not need it.
The head of the al-Azhar mosque, Sunni Islam's top authority, told a meeting in Cairo the practice, also known as female circumcision, was not a "must".

And Egypt's top official cleric, Ali Gomaa, said the Prophet Mohammad had not circumcised his daughters.

Female genital mutilation is widespread in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

The practice, which typically involves surgically removing the clitoris of a young girl, has been criticised as an infringement on the rights of women and a threat to their health.

Parents who support the practice argue that it helps prevent promiscuous behaviour in their daughters.

Genital mutilation or female circumcision often robs women of sensitivity in their sexual organs.

The conference on the subject in Cairo was organised by a German human rights group, Target, and attracted Islamic clerics from across the world.

'Doctors confuse us'

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the top scholar at Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, told the conference: "From a religious point of view, I don't find anything that says that circumcision is a must [for women]."

"In Islam, circumcision is for men only," the Associated Press news agency quoted him as saying.

However, Mr Tantawi said, doctors should ultimately decide whether the practice was necessary or correct.

Ali Gomaa, Egypt's top official Islamic scholar, or grand mufti, told the gathering no examples of the practice could be found in the Prophet Muhammad's life.

"The Prophet Muhammad didn't circumcise his [four] daughters," he said.

Another leading cleric, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, said that Islam did not require the practice but some clerics felt it was allowed.

He too placed the onus on doctors to clarify the issue.

"Doctors confuse us, as some are with and some are against, the final say should be for them," Mr Qaradawi told AP.

Widespread practice

Female genital mutilation is widespread in Egypt, Yemen, Oman and parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

It is relatively unknown in most other parts of the Muslim world, including south and south-east Asia, North Africa and Saudi Arabia.

The practice has been traced to Pharaonic times, pre-dating Islam.

Some Christian and animist groups in Africa also practice female genital mutilation.

Some parents who back the practice cite Muslim scholars and doctors who claim it is necessary or religiously desirable to remove the clitoris of young girls.

Women's groups in Egypt have been campaigning against it for years, but they know that the fight to eradicate it will take many more, reports the BBC's Heba Saleh in Cairo.

She says many Egyptian families still circumcise their daughters, even though this is not the first time top Muslim clerics have spoken out against the practice.

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I would like to share this article . . .:

Muslim Radicals In Power

By David Ignatius
Friday, February 3, 2006; Page A19

BEIRUT -- Are Muslim radicals changed by the experience of sharing in the responsibilities of government? The world has a lot riding on the answer to that question, and I can offer a small vignette drawn from a conversation with Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.

I visited the black-turbaned Nasrallah yesterday in his heavily guarded headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This is Hezbollahland: The narrow streets are chaotic, with bootleg telephone, electricity and cable TV wires dangling from every building, and surveillance cameras watching everything that moves. When you enter the inner compound, Hezbollah gunmen check for explosives or tracking devices in your pen, your watch, even your wedding ring.

Nasrallah was talking in the abstract about the democratic successes of Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamic movements. Yes, he said, having political power would change Hamas. It would "burden them with larger political responsibilities." The group would remain attached to its principles, he said, "but its behavior may be influenced" by the responsibility of government.

Then the phone rang, and the Hezbollah leader took a series of calls about the political stalemate that has paralyzed the Lebanese government. What transpired over the next few minutes was a demonstration that Nasrallah himself can, in the crunch, make the political deals that are part of governing. It also showed that however eager Islamic groups are for political power, they won't easily give up their guns.

Here's the background: A month ago, Nasrallah decided that the two Hezbollah members of the Lebanese cabinet and three other Shiite ministers should walk out in protest of decisions made by Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. The technical issue was Siniora's call for an international tribunal to weigh evidence gathered about the assassinations of Lebanese political leaders. But the real problem was Nasrallah's fear that Siniora was challenging Hezbollah's status as an armed "resistance" fighting Israel.

Without its Shiite members, the Lebanese cabinet was unable to decide on major issues, and the country was nearing political and economic paralysis. Siniora told me Wednesday night that it was a full-blown "political crisis," and he was searching frantically for a way out. French and American diplomats here feared that Nasrallah might scuttle the government altogether.

Instead, reason prevailed, or at least a Levantine version of it. Siniora made a statement in parliament yesterday that finessed the resistance/militia issue to Nasrallah's satisfaction. The prime minister also promised that consensus would rule on major issues if the Shiite ministers returned.

Nasrallah, after fielding a second phone call, turned to me and said the issue was "99 percent resolved." Hezbollah would get to keep its weapons, for now, and Lebanon would avert political disaster, for now.

Before we got into the hardball reality of Middle East politics, I had been asking Nasrallah about the idealistic version advanced by President Bush in his State of the Union speech. I read him a passage in which Bush said that "liberty is the future of every nation in the Middle East, because liberty is the right and hope of all humanity."

"Nice words. Lovely words," he answered, "but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom." He wondered, for example, whether the real power in Iraq would be exercised by the newly elected Iraqi government or by the more than 100,000 U.S. troops based there. Yet he did suggest that the Bush administration's democratization campaign could soften Muslim anger at America, if the United States can show it is serious.

"One reason for this hostility is that U.S. administrations for decades have always supported dictatorships in the Islamic world," Nasrallah explained. "The people of the Muslim world have held the U.S. responsible for what these governments did. I can assure you that to allow democracy will begin removing the barrier and the well of hatred against the U.S. But the real thing is to deal positively with the outcome of the elections."

There's one more matter in which Nasrallah agrees with the Bush administration -- in his view that al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab Zarqawi is fanning Sunni-Shiite tensions. "I believe the most dangerous thing we confront is the so-called Zarqawi phenomenon," he said. "This is a creed of killing without any responsibility -- to kill women, children, to attack mosques, churches, schools, restaurants." The issue in Iraq, he said, is "how to stop the killing."

The Bush administration's campaign for democracy has produced an unlikely cast of winners -- Hamas in Palestine, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shiite clerics in Iraq. To that list must be added Hasan Nasrallah, who may prove to be the cleverest and toughest of them all.

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MANILA: A fugitive Muslim militant, among members of Abu Sayyaf rebels who had beheaded a captive American tourist in the southern Philippines in 2001, was arrested in the south, army officials said yesterday.
Major Eugene Batara, an army spokesman, said Annik Abbas was on a motorcycle when soldiers stopped him at a checkpoint near Tuburan town on the southern island of Basilan late on Friday.
“He did not resist arrest,” Batara said, adding the Muslim militant was under surveillance for weeks after residents in a coastal village informed army intelligence of his hideout.
“Abbas was among Abu Sayyaf who kidnapped 20 American and Filipino tourists from a resort island on Palawan in 2001. We have information he took part in the beheading of American tourist Guillermo Sobero on Basilan.”
Abbas was arrested in 2002 in an army offensive on Basilan but escaped from the provincial jail two years later.
In August 20004, four months after he had escaped from jail, a local court found him and 16 others guilty for taking part in the kidnapping of 50 students in 2000 and was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
But he was saved from the gallows when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed a law scrapping the death penalty in the Philippines, commuting sentences of over 1,000 death row convicts to life imprisonment.
Batara said Abbas was the second militant who had taken part in the beheading of Sobero. Abdusalih Dimah was caught in his mountain hideout on Basilan in April.
The Abu Sayyaf, the smallest but most violent of four Muslim rebel groups in the Philippines, is suspected of links to Al Qaeda and regional network Jemaah Islamiah.
It was blamed for the country’s worst terror attack, the bombing of a ferry near Manila in February 2004 that killed more than 100 people.
l The largest of four Islamic rebel groups in the Philippines was preparing a counter proposal to Manila’s offer to expand the areas to be covered by an ancestral homeland for Muslims, said a guerrilla leader yesterday.
Mohaqher Iqbal, head of the negotiating panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said some provisions in the government’s proposal was “agreeable” and may lead to the resumption of talks in Malaysia.
“It’s like doing business,” Iqbal told reporters. “The government’s proposal has a tag price. So, we will bargain. We’ll offer another proposal to them.”
Iqbal said the rebels’ counter offer was being reviewed by the MILF leadership and was unsure when his group could actually respond to the government’s proposal to restart negotiations to end nearly 40 years of conflict that killed 120,000 people.
“Some of government’s proposals were positive, but others need to be discussed further,” Iqbal said, adding MILF political and military leaders held discussions last week to dissect Manila’s peace formula.
Jesus Dureza, the president’s adviser on the peace process, said the government was giving the rebels enough time “to determine what is best for them and for their destiny”.
“We will wait for them to respond to it,” Dureza said.
The government sent its fresh initiative on November 9 through the Malaysian government which has been facilitating the negotiations since March 2001.
Peace talks have stalled since June because of differences over the size and wealth of a proposed homeland for 3mn Muslims in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic country in Southeast Asia.
The MILF wants to add more than 1,000 villages to an existing five-province Muslim autonomous region in the resource-rich south without a referendum. The government has said it must put the demand to a poular vote.
Many of the villages earmarked for membership of a Muslim homeland lie far from the existing autonomous region and are surrounded by Christian territory.–Reuters

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Thx Khorshid jan for article :=) .

your welcome i just saw the thread and wondered .. maybe i should contribute something ..

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The caption on the TV screen reflected the troubled faces of the men at the podium who were holding a news conference.

The caption said, rather simply, "Muslims Express Outrage."


Finally, I thought, we were going to hear what millions of Americans had been waiting for: an orchestrated, organized, thoughtful, eloquent condemnation by American Islamic leaders of the worldwide terror and violence that Muslim fanatics continue to heap upon innocents.


One bloody, cruel attack after another seems to have been met with silence by Muslims living in America.

Nevermind the terrifying reports of jubilant men, women and children dancing in the streets after Sept. 11, 2001.

Fanatics are fanatics. But why aren't more thoughtful, peace-loving Muslims who live in the United States enthusiastically stepping up and speaking out against their fellow Muslims who think beheading college kids and blowing up American soldiers is their ticket to heaven?


So when I saw the image of "outraged Muslims" on the television, I hurried over to the set, turned up the volume, and settled into my easy chair.


Sadly, this wasn't a news event featuring Muslim leaders condemning the violence.

Evidently, some Muslim clerics were asked to leave a US Airways plane when some passengers complained about what appeared to be suspicious behavior.

According to The New York Times, one of the passengers passed a note to a flight attendant that claimed that the Arab men were overheard cursing President Bush over the capture of Saddam Hussein and continually chanting, "Allah, Allah, Allah."


It's impossible to know whether the accusation is accurate or not. Clearly, people can misunderstand or not hear correctly, or even worse, tell lies about other people. But if any aspect of the passenger's letter is correct, it's pretty easy to understand why people would have been concerned.


This war on terror is so difficult and complicated in a variety of ways.

For one thing, those of us who don't know the Koran or speak Arabic have to rely on the assurances of those who do that true Muslims are, indeed, peace-loving.


It's troubling to hear people who claim the Koran mandates that true Islamic believers understand and even support slaughtering infidels.


Craig Winn, a man who wrote a book called "Tea With Terrorists," claims to have spent thousands of hours studying the Koran and interviewing Muslim terrorists.

He has told me that there is no doubt in his mind that any true "good" Muslim completely embraces jihad, or Holy War.

Thankfully, there are many Muslims who immediately refute that and point to the Old Testament in the Bible and its depictions of stonings and other brutal acts as a way to demonstrate that things can be misinterpreted.

But one thing is not hard to realize, and that is the failure of mainstream Islamic leaders and Muslims in general to actively and aggressively put any fears to rest about their true intentions and forcefully condemn terrorism.






When the various Islamic activists from the Council on American Islamic Relations held a news conference about the US Airways incident, I was terribly sad.



It's disappointing that so much effort would be put into holding a news conference and complaining about the treatment of some clerics on an airplane when so little is said about the daily violence being committed by Islamic terrorists.






Most of us don't understand Islam. We want to believe that it's not a violent religion, but we know that so many people all over the world seem to embrace acts of cruelty and bloodshed.






I hate the idea that a Muslim cleric would be interrogated in an airport or scrutinized in any way, simply because of his ethnicity and religious beliefs.






But like it or not, we're fighting Middle Eastern Islamic extremists, not blond-haired, blue-eyed people.



In fact, if Swedish terrorists were killing people all over the world, I'm sure that a Swedish passenger would face plenty of suspicion and scrutiny as well.






Next time the Council on American Islamic Relations wants to hold a news conference, I hope it'll be talking about specific and total condemnation of Islamic extremists and their countless acts of violence.



Until we hear consistent and steady protestations from Muslims living in America, this situation will never improve.






There's a phrase that I use on my radio show while discussing this complicated issue.






Many people immediately understand it and agree with it, while others object. But it's a phrase that fits what we are all up against.






While it sounds harsh, I believe it fits perfectly: Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists are Muslim.






When all of us are able to agree, we'll go a long way toward understanding and resolving our differences.

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Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

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Morton has odd ally in radical Muslim

We've all heard that old cliche about politics making strange bedfellows. But there are few couplings more odd in the race to succeed Ralph Klein as Tory leader and premier than the one between Ted Morton and the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada.

On Wednesday, the Morton campaign proudly issued a press release announcing the support of the Calgary-based council, and its leader, Syed Soharwardy.

"The support of the ISCC demonstrates the continued momentum and growth of our campaign in these important final days," said Morton in his press release.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with religious and ethnic communities getting involved in the political process.

But Soharwardy, whose views have been disavowed by more mainstream Muslim leaders, has made headlines for years with his provocative political views.

In a newspaper article in 2000, Soharwardy wrote that what the Israelis have done to the Palestinians "is worse than the Holocaust of World War II."

In an interview with the Calgary Herald in August, he termed the Israeli bombings of Lebanon an act of genocide. In the past, he's also accused the United States of committing genocide in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In January 2005, after the devastating tsunami, Soharwardy accused Christian missionaries of kidnapping Muslim children in Indonesia. Last year, he called for a boycott of The Da Vinci Code, calling the film blasphemous. He's also been a strong proponent of introducing traditional Islamic sharia law to Canada for Muslim family arbitration.

And what exactly got Morton and Soharwardy into bed together?

Homosexuality, of course.

Morton's press people say Soharwardy supports their candidate because of Morton's stand against gay marriage and in defence of traditional family values.

And no, they acknowledge, they didn't stop to examine some of Soharwardy's pronouncements on other issues.

Welcome to the strange and contrary world of Ted Morton.

For years, Morton has defined himself by his strong right-wing views -- he's opposed same-sex marriage, abortion, the way Canada's courts have applied the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He's supported two-tier health care, private schools and the establishment of a legal firewall to protect poor little Alberta from big, bad Ottawa.

Yet now, Morton says, in effect, that he has no policies, no platform. He says he won't make any major policy decisions without the backing of PC party members and Albertans at large. He's gone from man of ice to man of Jell-O. And I don't know which Morton I find the more off-putting -- the old one whose political principles I abhor or the new one who seems to have no political principles at all.

But then, Morton has been always a man of intellectual contradictions.

Here's a guy who's spent virtually his entire professional life on the public payroll, as a university professor, parliamentary staffer or a backbench MLA, who now bemoans the evils of big government.

Here's a guy who enjoys the full protection of academic tenure, who now wants to make it easier to fire public school teachers.

A former American left-wing student radical who drew a "lucky" draft lottery number, then moved to Toronto to complete his graduate degrees while his peers were off in Vietnam -- but who now holds himself out as a model of hawkish, right-wing virtue.

An elitist urban academic, who arrived in Calgary in the 1980s, but who now portrays himself as a folksy man of the rural people.

A guy who's imported his political ideology from the United States via Toronto -- and who now has the temerity to tell us that we're the ones who don't have mainstream Alberta values.

A guy who's never run a business, farm, charity, government ministry or town council, but who now expects to run our province.

And by tomorrow morning, he could be our premier.

It's been grimly amusing to watch the Jim Dinning and Ed Stelmach camps scrambling, facing the realization that Morton could take over their cosy, middle-of-the-road Progressive Conservative party.

But the party is reaping what it sowed. The Tories invited Morton and his supporters into their big tent, as a strategy to hang onto rural votes and stay in power. Sow the wind and you reap the whirlwind. Whether he wins or loses, Ted Morton is set to huff, puff and blow the big tent down. If he wins, he'll split the party. If he loses, well, he'll split the party, too.

Who'll win tonight? It's too close to call. I can only guarantee that on Sunday, we'll wake up to a new chapter in Alberta's political history.

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مقامات عربستان سعودی گفته اند که طی حملاتی ۱۳۶ نفر مظنون به فعاليت های تروريستی را در اين کشور دستگير کرده اند.
به گفته وزارت کشور عربستان دستگيری ها در چند ماه گذشته در چند شهر صورت گرفته است.

به گفته سعودی دستگيرشدگان حوزه هايی شبيه شبکه القاعده داشته اند و يک نفر از آنها قصد داشته عمليات انتحاری انجام دهد.

آنها متهم هستند که قصد داشته اند حکومت پادشاهی سعودی را سرنگون کنند و به اهداف غربی در اين کشور حمله کنند. از دستگير شدگان ۱۱۵ نفر تبعه سعودی و بقيه خارجی بوده اند.

به گفته وزارت کشور عربستان برخی از پيکارجويان عملياتی انجام داده اند و برخی از آنها در تدارک اقدامات خشونت آميز بوده اند.

به گفته اين مقام، دستگيرشدگان به هشت سلول سازمانی تعلق داشته اند.

برخی از دستگير شدگان افرادی را برای مبارزه در "کشورهای بی ثبات" ثبت نام می کرده اند و برخی ديگر عده ای را برای آموزش عمليات نظامی در خارج از عربستان در نظر گرفته بودند.

در خلال دو سال گذشته، عربستان سعودی با حملات خشونت آميزی از جمله بمب گذاری در مراکز اقامت و فعاليت خارجيان روبرو بوده که گفته می شود وابستگان به شبکه القاعده مسئول آنها بوده اند.

گروه های اسلامگرا در عربستان سعودی نظام حکومتی مسلط در اين کشور را که به نام دين اسلام حکومت می کند، نظامی "گمراه و فاسد" می دانند که از دين اسلام برای توجيه سلطه خود سوء استفاده کرده است.

گروه های پيکارجوی سعودی با حضور خارجيان، به خصوص نيروهای نظامی غربی در خاک اين کشور مخالفت می ورزند. آنها تا کنون چند بار عملياتی عليه تأسيسات نفتی عربستان انجام داده اند.

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Radicals cause common ground to be eluasive

There is no question Pope Benedict XVI has been between a rock and a hard place the past couple of months after his call for Islam-led violence to end, but his plight is much like that facing all of Western society.






This past week, Benedict was traveling through Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country that was more than a bit offended by the Pope's comments about Islam. Benedict had enraged much of the Muslim world with a speech he made in September at the University of Regensburg in Germany, in which he supposedly linked Islam to violence and quoted a Byzantine emperor who regarded the religion founded by the prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhumane.''


Benedict lavished his hosts with friendly overtures and softened his long-standing opposition to Turkey's bid to join the European Union.


The Iraqi wing of al Qaeda was not pleased, however. It said on a website the Pope's visit was part of a crusade against Islam aimed at pulling Turkey out of the Muslim world and into "the quagmire of secularism.''


Hoping to soothe anger over what many Turks see as his anti-Islamic bias, the pope called for brotherhood and a healthy dialogue with Muslims, and he repeatedly described the common ground between Islam and Christianity.


But he did not back away from the message central to his world view, still denouncing violence when cloaked in religious fervor and to plead for broader religious freedom, especially for minority Christian communities.


While mainstream Islamics would hardly bat an eye at the Pope's comments, radical Islamic movements currently control the thinking process for Muslims worldwide. This is the major danger in our conflict with the radical part of the Islamic faith. The battle is not against Islam, but against the radicals who somehow see Western society as the devil incarnate.


If this has become a battle for religious tolerance, then the Islam faith may be losing its grip on the concept, not because of the teachings of the faith, but by the radical leadership that currently thrives on the laps of hatred.


This is why the Pope has run into trouble in the Muslim world. There is little tolerance throughout the Middle East and Asia Minor for such views to be expressed. But the hate message against Christianity continues to foment in this part of the world for no better reason than to advance the radical movement within the Islamic world.


America for sure, and not even the Pope, can openly condemn the terrorist movement without drawing the ire of Islamic radicals. But the terrorist movement itself is almost free from open criticism within this mostly peaceful religion.


Common ground could probably be found if the radicals of the Islam faith didn't rule the day by successfully sowing the seeds of hate while selling the idea that the rest of the world is evil.

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