From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 11:12:08 MST
Steve Davies opined:
<<Theresponse is then a matter of individual judgement and private action. In
the
case of the ME I believe Americans (and Brits etc) should intervene, by
assisting groups and individuals, by spreading ideas through organised
propaganda and indirectly through trade. The key thing in the ME and the
Islamic world more generally is to fund and help rationalist Muslims who are
trying to reconstitute the rationalist tradition in Islam (specifically the
Mutazilite tradition). The terrible disaster that has to be fought in this
way is the continuing destruction of moderate Islam by Saudi funded salafist
clerics over the last 20 years. I know you would have to repeal the Logan
Act but I think you should do that anyway.
Steve Davies>>
Well said. However, I am never 100% sure that the Muslim realm is adjustable,
by anything less then an apparent "Fatwa by Allah"; ME weather change, Mecca
and Medina being destroyed, deaths of Islamist leadership, and the rest. Then
the Uma might think that Allah is not favorable to the Wahabbist-Ayatolah
bunch. Then the focus might seek moderate thinking.
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