[Chaguito]

We must psychologically move the Muslim male away from the ideal of holy war and towards something like chivalry...

Who is "we"? Will infidels change 1200 years of tradition and doctrine, for instance attitudes toward women and a society that disagrees with them? 1200 years of doctrine that conquest is mandated by Allah? The Sufis are exceptions that prove the rule - tolerated by Muslims, but never a mainstream concept in the mind of Islam.

All of this analyzing the psychological conflict within the muslim male mind is similar to the analyzing of the German nationalist mind before WWII. They were cheated of Lebensraum, and conceded that territory, their lust for conquest would go away.

It won't.

[FreedomSurge]

The sufis got pretty much wiped out by the wahabbis.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Who is "we"?"

The people in our military and intelligence agencies who are responsible with the WOT, along with the media.

The jihadists are good at manipulating public opinion; I am simply proposing ways to manipulate public opinion against them and demoralize them. I am very interested in approaches that would psychologically deligitimize suicide attacks, put them on the defensive, create a moral and psychological gap between suicide violence and Islam, and suggest alternate ways of living out their faith. We are always on the defensive from the PR point of view, and have done a lousy job on the psy ops front, a pathetic job, in my opinion. I'm just floating ideas, suggestions, theories, to try to turn that around. They may not work, but I think they are more realistic than bombing Mecca, interning or deporting all Muslims, or some of the other brilliant ideas that have been suggested here.

[Steve_Seattle]

"All of this analyzing the psychological conflict within the muslim male mind is similar to the analyzing of the German nationalist mind before WWII."

Perhaps if we'd paid more attention to the German psyche in the 20s, we could have avoided the developments of the 30s.