[Clive]

"... This is a sign of the times:Any real effort to analyze Muslim radicalism is denounced for the unpleasant truths it unearths --as if the main problem in our world wasn't Muslims blowing themselves up, but rather the unconscionably racist act of noticing their smoke plumes."

"If honest efforts to understand and forecast terror are going to be protested in knee-jerk fashion by non-Muslim liberals and Muslim political groups, those same people ought not to be mystified later when they are accused of facilitating terror itself."

[rellimpank]

—bflr—

[Paladin2]

"Unfortunately, the prescribed policy responses that emerge from this analysis are not as simple or easily implemented as one might hope."

Well, they could be. No Wahabbist Imams allowed to immigrate.

[JasonC]

Yes, the intellectual attraction of moderate Islam is key. True, social club religion-lite has no intellectual attraction. There is just no necessary relation between the first and the second.

Moderate Islam does not need to be sitting around saying "calm down and have a cup of tea, Achmed", it needs to be saying "you are defying the living God and will burn in hell."