"Stephen Trapani" wrote in message
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I agree completely, but we certainly should judge the tiny minority of
wackos and do whatever we can to stop them.

Stephen

And I agree with that as well. The question is, what can we do to stop them?
If they perceive themselves as being attacked by outside forces, they will
also perceive themselves as being righteous in resisting and fighting those
outside forces. But Islam demands that when they are no longer being
attacked, they MUST stop fighting. This doesn't necessarily mean that the
extremists *would* stop fighting, but it does mean that those who continued
in the face of no active enemies would lose virtually all of their support
within the Muslim world. This, then, would put the problem of Islamic
extremists where it belongs -- in the hands of the Faithful.