President Bush is "terrorizing" Americans with the terrorism issue for political gain.
Liberal ill-logic:
Osama bin Laden flies three passenger planes into the WTC towers and the Pentagon and loses one other hi-jacked plane in a vertical-dive crash into a PA field - libs say "We must try to understand them."
President Bush uses his duly elected Constitutional authority to protect the nation from further terrorist attacks including using his bully pulpit to remind Congress and the people that the danger still exists - libs say "President Bush is "terrorizing" Americans with the terrorism issue for political gain."
Can I offer you another Prozac, Charlie?
The only reason to understand them is to find out the way they think . The fundamentalist leadership, like any other funamenalsts, believe the end of the world is eminent. That mindset helps them recruit people that can be easily persuaded to do thing like become human bombs. They convince these people that since the end is so near, a sacrificial suicide gives the bomber a head start on heaven before the rush starts.
Is clear that the moderate of the flock fear the extremists in this life and the next. If wasn't true, the moderates would disassociate themselves from the radicals and help end this madness. These people fear the understanding of us. So there is no give and take. An Islamist who compromises with Christians and at al, will be compromised by his own people. The only other thing else to understand is, how to take them out where they stand.