Identify, Name and Target

Submitted by Graham Rael-Brook (United States), Nov 19, 2002 at 14:14

You are 100/5 on target with your challenge to the Administration to identify the hardcore enemy. They have a tremendous advantage as they wear no uniform and need none. The least we can do to make our attack on them more effective is to "out" them by identifying and naming them for targeting. Anything less is to afford our enemy aid and comfort.

With a possible 1.2 billion adherents to islam worldwide, if only 1% might be categorized as sympathetic to or active militant Islamists, we are talking about 12 million who are free to attack at will.

Of course, this might mean there are 1.188 billion Muslims who are pacifist in their devotion to their religion. Do you think that this vast body should be actively approached to join forces with those non-Muslims who are targets of militant Islamists?

Applying Pres. Bush's statement suggesting that those who afford support to terrorists share in their guilt should be taken as an invitation to Muslims to declare themselves so that they not be targeted by us and also to enlist their help in identifying the guilty parties.

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