Thanks for clarification, Dr. P.

Submitted by mike jacobs (United States), Dec 28, 2006 at 01:36

Bravo, Dr.P. I, too, see the only real resolution and reduction of radical fundamentalist Islam as being an "inside job" done by the currently endangered species, moderate Muslims. Our (that is, we non-Muslims) main task, as far as the long term defeat of the radicals is concerned, seems to be to (1)help the moderates connect and coalesce with each other, (2) do what we can to protect moderates from the inevitable violence the radicals will visit on them as the only really viable opposition, and (3) conduct the necessary education and leadership tasks within the non-Muslim world to (a) protect ourselves and (b) counter the ignorance and fear of our own cultures and religions so as to avoid damaging the process of (1) and (2), above.

The Ethiopian support to the Somalian provisional government (itself a nominally Muslim majority institution) in the face of the Islamist power grab seems to have earmarks of a starter model of the process.

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