That's why I say that the US and our allies must take positive steps to have a thoughtful PR campaign telling Muslims that these are NOT the End Times and we are NOT the Dajjal.
I'd like to see Bush toss a little of the WOT money to those Qur'anic scholars I mentioned in Post# 98. Put them on our "Voice of America" radio. Have our soldiers distribute their articles. Let's try to defuse this End-Times hysteria.
We need to actively work to marginalize the Qiyamists. But the situation is a mess. There will still be Islamic terrorists who hate our geopolitics and our support for Israel, etc., regardless.
But if we can shrink the number of Qiyamists, then we will shrink the pool from which they recruit many of their footsoldiers.
"I'd like to see Bush toss a little of the WOT money to those Qur'anic scholars I mentioned in Post# 98. Put them on our "Voice of America" radio. Have our soldiers distribute their articles. Let's try to defuse this End-Times hysteria."
Yes. That's fair enough. So long as these scholars are held and perceived, by the majority of Muslims, as respected authority figures who have 'their' interests at heart.
Another option along with the one you mention maybe to build more secular infrastructure within these Muslim countries. Hence, gradually, shifting focus from a society run by Islamic laws to a society practising Islam in a more private and spiritual manner. It won't be easy at all. Turkey, for example, began to do this a long time ago and still keeps very strict lid/control on the 'type' of Islam preached by some its so-called religious leaders.
I also agree that there will always be fanatic leaders and those who believe and follow them.
i BELIEVE these guys,
have a purpose in whipping up and manipulating Muslim END TIMES stuff toward these guy’s determination to reduce the global population to 200 million:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2