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I'd like to agree with you, but voices of reason in the Muslim community are few and far between. People like Sheik Kabbani have been marginalized by CAIR and other American-Muslim groups, and any near term reformation of Islam seems, in my opinion, highly unlikely....

What does that leave as a choice?

The extermination of Islam as a religion?

Well, if Biblical prophecy is to be believed, all our problems with Islam will end sooner or later....

Consider John Q. Muslim.

He lives someplace where a dromedary is a perfectly normal mode of transportation, and the public facilities suck; but at least the weather stays pretty constant, and things around you are interesting (think Chinese curses here).

He has a wife and a couple of kids, and he’s trying to make a living to keep everyone under roof, fed, clothed, and schooled...ok, well maybe not that... plus all the rest of the basic needs that exist anywhere where else.

Sort of…

He watches the news—when he can—on local television that would make CNN appear to be the picture of unbiased journalism, and reads newspapers that most civilized finches would defecate on principle alone, even if they have to break out of their cages to do so.

He sees pictures of a western world where people more or less very much like him—in the fact that they have the same daily preoccupations of going about the business of gathering the necessary funds to sustain their wives and kids—seem to have a much better life than he does (no camels in sight in any picture of America that he’s ever seen) and he knows what its might can do when it directs its undivided attention at an enemy.

He also hears the call to Jihad from the extremists within his world.

He has a basic idea of the kind of hell the west can rain down on countries where four hoofs compete for pavement space with four tires, and probably just wishes that these idiots would go someplace where they would not affect him, or that American bombs are sufficiently smart to send his fundie brother-in-law and his crew on a date with seven Muslim virgins while missing himself and his family, even though they all share what in any semi-developed part in the world would be at best be considered a hovel; and having had a Muslim virgin on his wedding night, he can’t possibly imagine how that unfortunate experience, times seven, could be considered paradise.

And he knows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if his brother-in-law and his extremist friends wrest control of his life, his future is bleaker than his present.

Whatever the most obvious end to this clash of civilizations could be, it most surely spells the defeat of moderate Islam, so the enemy of moderate Islam’s enemy, is their friend.

So I’m asking John Q. Muslim to consider this, realize that this is their fight even more so than it is ours, and that the time has come for them to step up to the plate and fight for their world, as we fight the people who would destroy it.