Response to "How Islamists Came to Dominate European Islam"

Submitted by Mark Preston (United States), May 25, 2010 at 16:12

Quoting Winston Churchill: "The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative." Oft times, my gut says, this problem won't go away until a nuke goes off. Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C.? Who knows where. But we won't know, for certain, the government, group or individual who used nuclear weapons. I'm reminded that Malcolm X met Ramadan's dad. As probably did Ramadan himself. As X was an extremist around that time, it's small wonder that, based on what Mr. X opinion of the United States was, at that time, he gave a severe misimpression to his hosts. The same probably holds true for the various Black Muslim fugutives, Timothy Leary and other 60s radicals, who, having fled to Algeria (and other places) to avoid extradition, undoubtedly gave both the authorities and local news media an impression that they were "seeking asylum as 'political prisoners of conscience'".

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