Re: The Reality of Islamic Jihadists and The Size of Their Support in
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Assertions of those who assume the vast majority of Moslems are peaceful and have no wish to impose their religion on others is given the lie by what you see every day in the news.
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This is just flat out contradicted by the article. The writer has no real evidence to speculate on the size of the pro-jihad contingent, but even his random guesses would characterize the "vast majority" of Moslems as peaceful.
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He rightly says that it is not an insignificant portion of the whole, and that that those Moslems who don't hold those views are not doing much to fight them in their own religious communities worldwide.
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I don't think anybody believes that the pro-jihad faction is insignificant. A miniscule number of pro-jihad actors could end up being significant.
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If there is a failure on the part of the administration in the war, and on the part of the president himself, it is in not clearly focusing the american people on the overall Islamic terrorist and Shari'a movement threat and sticking to that focus in everything he says and refusing to allow critics to try to sidestep the threat with PC hogwash based on their own assumptions of how reasonable persons would act, when the potential threat comes from unreasonable persons.
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How about this for a failure? On September 11th, 2001, there were only a small number of terrorist sympathizing Muslims, the most active of which were largely confined to places like Afghanistan and Chechnya. Four and half years later, we are dealing with a rapidly expanding cross-national movement that has by all accounts - including candid statements from people in the Bush administration - grown by tremendous proportions. The primary impetus to this vast growth in the pro-jihad population has been the war in Iraq, which itself has turned into a tremendous catastrophe on many other dimensions as well. Bush was handed the problem of dealing with a small-scale terrorist movement and, through incompetent foreign policy, played a major role in fostering a clash of civilizations. So what was the major mistake again?
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