Thank you Sue for posting this link. But I'm interested in how much you would agree with it.
Because it seems to lack coherence at some points. The author is apparently pro-war. OK. But then he paints the Iraq war as a critical and strategic assault on Islamism. That goes against what we know about * the lack of WMD, * the lack of links between Iraq and terrorists, and * that Saddam's regime was largely secular. On the dangers of the Iraq war serving as a catalyst for Islamism, he is silent; only that the US must now complete their task.
He does say that democracy needs to be fostered from within.
It is interesting to note the changes in Bush's language regarding Islam, but tends to underline the problems of their previous ham-fisted approach.
Kind regards, Lindsay Brash.
At 09:04 AM 7/11/03 +1100, Sue Bolton wrote:
For an Iranian perspective on the problem: "How To Combat Islamist Terrorism Without Combating Islam?" http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2003&m=11&d=06&a=5 This is the text of a speech given in Copenhagen this week by Mehdi Mozaffari, of the Department of Political Science University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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