The elephant in the room!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Mar 4, 2013 at 07:55

Very good observation.

However, I do believe that our leaders are naive enough to believe that if we are "nice" to Muslims and Islam then Muslims (radicals included) would be nice to us and this will be the end of Islamic terrorism! And this is indeed a disaster because Muslims both so called moderates and radicals view this stance as a sign of weakness of the US and no more

I repeat what Mark Lilla wrote in the NYT following the 9/11 atrocity that the only way out of Islamic terrorism is that Muslims themselves find those doctrines in Islam that lead to this criminal behaviour or the elephant in the room and declare them null and void. So until our leaders understand such fact I see more of the same

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