Don't lump all Muslims into the same mold. It's tantamount to lumping in all the crazy white guys into the same mold as the rest of us sane folks like you and I. Not all Muslims are insane and wacked out.
So what if Bush is coddling the Muslim community. It's not the insane, Islamofascist sect he's coddling. I'm sure you can see this.
The jury is still out on that point.
Many leaders of friendly Muslim countries are secular in their rule but face dangerous factions of jihad militants.
The problem is that many of the jihadists are led by Muslim religious leaders.
It would be like waking up to Christianity, acknowledged virtually without question as a religion of peace, and finding that all its priests and ministers were advocating death to all non-Christians, and in many cases ordering terrorist acts against non-Christians.
One would be hard pressed in such circumstances to call Christianity a 'religion of peace'.
Bush has it half right when he says Islam has been hijacked. But hijacked by who?
Islam has been hijacked by their own religious leaders for the purpose of jihad. That sounds so conflicting as to be untenable. But yet it is believed to be true. So we can only conclude that Islam is not a religion of peace and has not been hijacked, rather it has been ignored, mischaracterized and underestimated.
Is there a solution? The Soviets had a solution to this. Although they had a poor economic model, they at least carried forward a policy dating back to the Tartars on how to handle the Muslim populations.
The Romans also had a solution.
And Americans in WWII demonstrated the ability to solve this type of problem but have been weak ever since.
What has happened to Saudi Arabia to make them stop funding Wahabbism? What has happened to CAIR? What has Bush done to get the Muslim community in the United States to ensure their co-operation in hunting down the Al Qaeda operatives among their numbers?
Ivan