[Simo Hayha]

Steyn credits the Islam of Osama with the power to sway every Muslim to that way of thinking. If that was the case, we'd be playing hell in Afghanistan and Iraq. Do we still maintain bases in Saudi Arabia, home of Mecca and Medina? Osama and gang are probably knocking their heads against the cave wall because their cause has faltered.

Crediting Steyn's argument discredits the elections in Iraq. What goes on in Islamic countries now, with minority populations of Christians and/or Jews, or Westerners, for that matter?

Someone wrote an article in the local paper here. The person was visiting in one of the countries of the Middle East. What she described as far as a local shopping mall goes sounded like any mall in America.

Osama has been banging the drum for jihad long enough that you'd think they would all be buying airline tickets w/o the benefit of a kamikaze helmet and goggles.

It is an elightening piece, baffling as well, but I just don't buy all of it.

[Steve Van Doorn]

”Steyn credits the Islam of Osama with the power to sway every Muslim to that way of thinking.”

Iran is a good example of what Steyn is saying. Iran’s people have become very western thinking yet it has been taken over by the extremist. The populations of most Muslim countries become complacent due to the fact they seem agree with part of the extremist thinking thus the majority doesn’t do anything about the extremist.