USA NEEDS TO CHALLENGE SAUDI ARABIA AND PAKISTAN. AND PROMOTE LIBERAL MUSLIMS. THIS IS UNAVOIDABLE, IF THE WEST WISHES TO ADVANCE PEACE AND LIBERTY. I am all for restraint on the issue, and would never hold every Muslim accountable for the acts of a few. But it is not good for us or the Muslim world to pretend that this spreading jihadist violence isn’t coming out of their faith community. It is coming mostly, but not exclusively, from angry young men and preachers on the fringe of the Sunni Arab and Pakistani communities in the Middle East and Europe. Only Sunni Arabs and Pakistanis can get inside their narrative and remediate it. But reformers can only do that if they have a free, secure political space. If we’re not going to help create space for that internal dialogue, let’s just be quiet. Don’t say stupid stuff. And don’t hold airy fairy conferences that dodge the real issues, which many mainstream Muslims know and are actually starved to discuss, especially women.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:35:47 +0000
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