The PR War

Submitted by CD Womack (United States), Sep 7, 2007 at 19:24

To 'bash Islam/ists' - to suggest that all muslims are 'bad' - is the fall into the hands of the terrorists. Fundamental to the terrorists is to unite all Arabs, all muslims, and 'bashing Islam' falls right into the trap. Equally absurd and ignorant. Thomas Friedmon makes a compelling case that Bush is actually losing the PR war to a "genocidal mass murderer".

This should not be! The way to destroy the terrorists is to MARGINALIZE THEM. This was the very thing that Al-zahiri feared most when he told Zarqawi: 'no more videotaped beheadings' - it was exposing their practice for what it was: ludicrous and insane; it was serving to marginalize them. This is the very way to destroy them. Most muslims and readers of the KORAN would readily know a sociopath when they see one.

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