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| 2004-09-12 |
| This is the conclusion of a long WaPo Outlook article by Based on conversations with Mideast experts, it appears that in the meantime, the United States could do three things. First, hold a genuine two-way dialogue. i. e. submission. They talk, we listen. For all the hand-wringing about ending hatreds, that essential element is missing. In a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace last month, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said that the United States must do more with the Islamic world to dispel "destructive myths" about America and to support "voices of moderation." The most striking thing about the speech was that she gave it to an American audience. Asked why no senior U.S. official had given a similar speech in any of the five largest Muslim countries in the three years since Sept. 11, she replied, " Sounds like a job the NSA should already be performing. "Even the hard-core jihadis are having big debates about who exactly the enemy is and . . . about their tactics," says Princeton University Mideast expert Michael Doran, who gets up early each morning Wow. This must not happen often among the DC elite. They ought to get a job. to research Islamist and jihadi Web sites. When U.S. contractor Paul Johnson was beheaded in Saudi Arabia "some said it was wrong. Others said, 'Our violence makes us look bad.' One of the most important ideologues, Abu Baseer, a cleric who was an Afghan jihadist, said 'Westerners in our society have protection.' The radicals countered that an apostate state -- Saudi Arabia -- can't grant immunity. But Baseer said, 'That's not right, we haven't thrown traditions out.' Three years after Sept. 11 . . . the debate among them is totally unknown." It's in MEMRI all the time. It's just that there's not very much of it and a lot more on the Anti-U. S. side than the pro U. S. or even neutral A second course of U.S. action would be to use economic tools. like the French. Apaprently Oil just doesn't give them enough economic power Several Muslim countries, including Algeria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Iran and Iraq, are seeking membership in the World Trade Organization. The United States could use WTO membership to induce change and force countries to embrace the rule of law. Sequencing is wrong. AFTER they embrace the rule of law they get in, not before. Otherwise where's the incentive. Finally, we can embrace our own Islamic identity. Yes, we can return to patriarchy and our Founding Fathers, Al-Bin-jamin Franklin, Abu George al Washington and Will-ali am-Bradford and the fundamentalist pilgrims who got lost on the way to Mecca. Islam, the fastest-growing religion in the United States, is expected to become the second-largest faith in six years. Encourage your children to have more. Yet Muslims remain on the fringe. Just ask women who cover their heads or men with beards waiting in the boarding areas of airports. Perhaps there's a connection theere. The Amish remain on the fringe too, even after 300 years. But they don't hear God telling them to blow up garages, much less office buildings. Immediately after 9/11, Bush visited the Islamic Center in Washington and said Islam was not the enemy. This is a noble sentiment, but Muslims must also become part of the mainstream. No body is stopping them. And some do. But that doesn't mean the mainstream becomes muslim. It's the other way around. -- a challenge faced throughout the West. For Europeans, the most important battle for Muslim hearts and minds over the next decade will not be fought in the Middle East but in European cities where the numbers of Muslims are growing, as Giles Kepel, a French expert on Islam, says in his new book The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. "If European societies are able to integrate these Muslim populations fat f&^%ing chance . . .this new generation of Muslims may become the Islamic vanguard of the next decade," he writes. He also has plans to make pigs fly The unspoken undercurrent behind our failure to do more over the past three years is what Jimmah Carter's former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "a fear that periodically verges on panic that is in itself blind." As we look beyond our grief, we must also get beyond our prejudice and fear. to sublime submission to the will of Alah as understood by Osama bin Laden Robin Wright FOAD |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #4 What Robin Wright left the LA times? Allen be praised! |
| Posted by: Trolling for Allan 2004-09-12 4:43:37 PM |
| #3 Robin Wright has been writing similar crap for 20 years now. She made many of the same noises about the need for us to understand the communists better. That of course was one God that failed. She's hooked onto another failing god. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-09-12 12:59:10 PM |
| #2 methinks Robin should remember her place, STFU and get thee back in a burqa. She's already converted in the name of PC. We need a one way dialogue with fundamentalist islam, preferably via GPS coords |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-12 12:31:04 PM |
| #1 The sad but blindingly obvious truth is that the muslims DON'T WANT OR TRY to integrate! Even the DUTCH!!! Yes, the DUTCH!!! The MOST liberal and tolerant people in the world have recently realized that they refuse to integrate. They won't learn the language, nor respect the laws and traditions of the Dutch. Lately, in the news, even the Dutch politicians have come to the conclusion that this PC "multi-culturalism" is an absolute failure and will only cause more problems in the future. |
| Posted by: 98zulu 2004-09-12 12:06:03 PM |