The “Liberal ” innovations of those times arise from the leader’s realization that the Party must , at that point in time and it’s history must of had to adapt to the then changing as well as challenging conditions within the then “Soviet Union”. It seemed to be that the ever-increasing complexity of the Soviet economic, scientific and intellectual communities would demand a more than comparable growth of well trained responsible and even imaginative people who could make the system work , grow and even flourish - all of this with a very high degree of efficiency. What was not seen , nor perceived in any manner at that point was how the system would crush under its own weight of lack of inertia - in any forward progressive manner and in its own manner be corrupt and dead weight. In time the system would decay and collapse of its own merits or lack of same. It may have been a sea change of course , by a giant sea liner , but in the end it was for more than all of naught. A terrific waste of time , energy and human talent. If it was not for the great amount of Soviet Oil reserves , their value and the great amount of foreign currency that these petrodollars and hard currency - it would of happened in a flash - much much sooner in time
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Sphere: Related ContentIt can be said that collective leadership , first under the authority of Malenskov, then under Kruschev repudiated Stalin’s technique and techniques of government by terror. Denouncing Stalin’s “Cult of Personality” - which can be more than interpreted to mean his refusal to recognize any law higher than his own word , thoughts and preferences of his own bloody and demanding caprice - Krushchev , in his more than famous “secret speech” of 1956 , ushered in a new era at that time. Terror largely gave way to “persuasion” and the good of the masses or of “Mother Russia” of the artbritrary chosen violence of the government. Within the extensive de-Stalininazation proceeedings of the Twenty Third Congress five years afterward the Party surpassed all previous efforts to sponge away the taint of Stalin’s autocracy.
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While the West continues to speak of “Soviet tolalitarianism”, the leaders and writers of the Soviet Communist Party had boasted more and more loudly that the party was being “democratized”. The truth was that the Soviet Communist s had indeed taken significant steps towards “liberalizing” party practices. This evolution toward what was considered “democracy” had already had incalculable and even calculated effects within and inside the Communist party at that time. It had also profoundly altered the relationship and relationships that had existed at that time between the Soviet Party itself and its satellites in Eastern Europe. These developments obviously led to major effects as well as inherent challenges.
At that time events at the Twenty Second Congress of the “Party” ( October 1961) in a manner dramatically marked events at the most recent stages in the trend towards what was considered ” the trend towards liberlization” , a trend which had its major roots in a fundamental dichotomy of Communist thought , background , theory and theories. Lenin , the father of the “party” , on the one hand fiercely committed to democracy and its values and individual liberties , and on the other hand yet to the absolute authority , without question of any type or kind , to the absolute authority fo the Party’s Central Committee.
It can be said that democratic values took short shift from Stalin, who focused the attention soley only the aggradnizement of his own personal authority as well as image. Only with his death in March 1953, and Lawrenti Berla’s removal from power three months later was the inherent structural balance at least partially redressed.
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The Hezbollah-Al Qaeda relationship with a strategic partnership indicative of a major shift om terrorist thinking / planning. Throughout the 1990′2 ethonationalist Muslim groups were supplanted or fell under the influence of Muslim groups, therby paving the way for further and deeper ideological tolerance and intergroup cohesion as a mean of confronting a “common enemy”. This interesting (?) development was not confined to the Middle East , Shia and Sunni groups also cooperated in Asia, the first sign of this being seen in links between Hezbollah and Al Qaeda associate groups such as Moro Islamic liberation front (MILF), which facilitated and supported Hezbollah’s operations in the Asia-Pacific in the late 1990′2. The disruption of a Hezbollah cell in Singapore in 1998 and arrest of Hezbollah operatives in 1999 and 2000 in the Phillipines is compelling evidence of this new cooperation. The arrest at Pandu Yudhawinata, an Indonesian Hezbolah operative at Manila’s domestic airport was the direct result of the monitoring of the MILF liason officer Abdul Nassar Nooh;s communication with Islamic charities connected with Hezbollah in the Phillipines. Furthermore Hezbollah’s plans to recruit Malaysians and Indonesians to conduct terrorist attacks in Australis and Isreal have been detected. Trilateral cooperation between the US, Israel and the Phillipines also led to the arrest of Malaysian based hezbollah leader Hisham ( alias Jaafar) , who was planning terrorist attacks on South East Asia.
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These arrests did not deter Al-Qaeda. Instead of infiltrating an operation from the Occupied Territories into Israel , Al Qaeda dispatchched Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber” , to Tel Aviv with the intention of striking inside Israel itself. From July to December 2001 his travel included London, Amsterdam , Tel Aviv, Cairo, Pakistan , Afghanistan , Brussels and Paris . His visit to Israel was exposed accidentally when in January 2002 Wall Street reporters purchased a computer in Kabul containing several thousand files , one of which also referred to various journeys by Abdul Ra’uff, Al Qaeda’s alias for Mr. Reid. The explosive he used also links him to cooperation with Palestinian groups, each of his shoes contained 4 ounces of Pentaerythritol (PETN) , the latter being used as an explosive extensively by Palestinian Jihad/Hamas.
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Sphere: Related ContentHindawi , allegedly trained by Al Qadeda in the Durante camp in 1998, was recruited while he was living in Lebanon. At the time of his arrest in Feb 2000 , his father was the chief of police in Palestinian police in Hebron. While trying to recruit members for his cell, Ukal was detained in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1 ,2000. Investigations uncovered that he had gone for “religious training” in Pakistan in 1997 but recruited by an Al Qaeda associate group there and trained in Afghanistan. Uka’s Al Qaeda agent handler asked him to set up a support infrastructure via recruitment including Israeli Arabs. Upon his return to the Gaza Strip Al Qadea handlers in Jordan and Britain kept in touch with him by email. Ukal was also met by the spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Ukal was indicted by a military court at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip and charged with planning ” a large scale attack in the center of the country, recruiting suicide bombers and planning attacks on Israeli Defence Force Soldiers”.
Sphere: Related ContentAl Qaeda has forged ties with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, given the many Palestinians who went to Afghanistan and rose to important positions within that organization. While Azzam was neither a member of Fatah or Hamas, he funded the latter during the formative years. However, according to a leading specialist om Al Qaeda, Palestinian groups were reluctant to co-operate with Al Qaeda because of its habit of absorbing any organization that gets to close to it. He added “For example - Look at how the Egyptian groups were absorbed and Osama gained almost total control of them”. There are several charities based in Sudan and Pakistan Islamic Jihad. For example the intelligence community has monitored one such charity in Islamabad in order to determine whether the funds were transferred from it to Hamas.
The Israeli security and intelligence services - Shib Bet and the Mossad - believe that Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Occupied Territories and that it is only a matter of time before it mounts an operation against Israel. A number of Palestinians mainly from Jordan ( including until his detention in March 2002, its chief of operations Abu Zubaydah) serve in Al Qaeda. Records seized in Afghanistan in late 2001 , reveal that it has been training Palestinians. However up till now , only Hindawi a Palestinian whose family comes from Halhul and Nabil Ukal , a 27 year old Palestinian from the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip have been arrested on suspicion of being members of Al Qaeda.
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raq was a secular state. Although its intelligence agencies under Sadaam had aided Islamist terrorist groups that target Western interests, there was little or no evidence to indicate that Iraq supported Al Qaeda. Iraq’s support for Islamist and other secular terrorists, as well as various criminal organizations increased during and after the first “Gulf war”. Through the various intelligence agencies of the Hussein regime , using diplomatic facilities ,such as the the diplomatic mailbag (DPL mailbag), they moved money , arms, ammunition and explosives to countries ranging from Thailand, to the Philippines and Sri Lanka with the intention of attacking US and allied interests.
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Stay safe of phishing over phone
Scammers are now trying to make you call them up and divulge your personal and financial details. Watch out before you answer that call.
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Things have just got ‘phishier’ on the Net. Those scammers who have made our lives tough with email phishing have devised a new game. Called ‘voice phishing’, the technique is being used to dig out our details and committing various crimes online.
The scammers set up a fake call center using VoIP (Voice over IP). They send email message claiming to come from a reputed company. But instead of giving a website link to click on, they send a phone number to call. Once you call on that number, what you hear sounds like the company’s telephone queuing system. The unsuspecting user thinks it is the genuine company and gets easily deceived.
The recorded message you hear after dialing the number asks for details like your payment card information (numbers, expiry dates and the last three digits printed on the signature panel), PIN (Personal Identification Number) social insurance number, date of birth, bank account numbers and passport number. Each one of these is valuable information for the phisher as it can give him the control of your financial accounts, help open new bank accounts, transfer bank balances, file loan applications, apply for credit cards and other goods/services, purchase luxury items, conceal criminal activities, receive government grants or secure a passport.
The email can be sent out as “image spam. This means the email carries an embedded image instead of actual words so your spam filter will not be able to catch it.
Voice phishing catches you unawares. The clever scammer has asked you to call on a number. You are well acquainted with the names of your favourite online companies but there are bleak chances that you know their numbers as well. That’s where the scammer outsmarts you, making you call on the number and divulge your confidential account information.
When you smell something phishy
There are ways you can differentiate a ‘phish’ from genuine messages. The message comprises language/information that sounds strange or too exciting. It can demand an immediate response and is not personalised in most cases.
Always be wary of any unsolicited incoming communication. Do not divulge any personal information on phone unless you have called your bank yourself. Always check the number you are calling and tally it with the number listed on your bank’s website. Avoid sending personal information and bank account details over email. In case of credit cards, for verification purposes, use the telephone number printed on the back of the card. Also remember no bank asks you for PINs, passwords or all 16 digits of your credit card number. Once you notice a ‘phish’ do not click on that link. Report it immediatel
Sphere: Related ContentMounting international pressure after 9 /11 finally galvanized the British authorities into action; Abu Qatada’s West London home was raided and 180,00 British pound Sterling in various currencies seized ( until then he been fraudulently claiming social welfare). Abu Qyatada who enjoyed political asylum in Britain , was named by the United Nations as a terror suspect and by the Spanish authorities as Al Qaeda’s spiritual ambassador in Europe. He was also leader of the Takfir Wal Hijra, which was then headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri - later to obtain much greater fame and fortune in noteriety and world media.
Despite intelligence claims and reports that he had not met Osama in the 1980’s , Abu Qatada denies ever having done so. However he is wanted by the Jordanian government in connection with a series of bombings in Amman in late 1998.
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SEX SURVEY - India today, a leading magazine in India conducted SEX SURVEY in India. Survey was conducted on 2,559 males in the age group of 16-25 years across 11 prime cities of India. Interesting findings of the survey are as follows.46% single 16-25 year old males have had sex. 63% single young men expect the women they marry to be a virgin. 37% single young men have had a homosexual experience. 49% young men had sex with sex workers 50% young men believe women who wear revealing clothes are sexually liberated 58% young men say good grooming is important to attract the attention of the girls 56% made their contact with the girls in friends circle. 83% keep in touch with their girl friend over phone 56% parents do not object to mixing with female friends. 74% do not want to marry a woman who admits to having had pre-marital sex with one or few partners.37% worried about people staring when they out with his girl friend 63% would not like to marry or date a woman much older to him. 55% go with their girl friends to restaurant63% discuss with their female friends about movies 31% say they spend Rs.50-Rs.100/- when they go out with their male friends. 27% say they spend Rs.100-Rs. 250/- when they go with their girl friend. Of all the above findings, I was stuck at the finding “74% do not want to marry a woman who admits to having had pre-marital sex with one or few partners”. This means the inner heart still feels pre-marital sex is wrong. After all we are doing many wrong things in our life. Just like smoking, drinking alcohol, which are proven injurious to health. Casual pre-marital sex is still dangerous to health and to the family. To conclude I say sex with partner gives most pleasure and one will enjoy it to the core when it is done with purity. Avoid pre-marital/extra marital sex for the purest and highest enjoyment.
In the 1960s, Brigitte Bardot was France’s national icon, a pouty-lipped poster girl for the glories of her home country. So it is a sign of how radically times have changed that yesterday’s silver-screen darling is today’s enemy of the people.Bardot’s “crimes,” such as they are, are straightforward: She has committed the sin of speaking frankly and unapologetically about her country’s hostile Muslim immigrant population and – what is evidently worse – questioning the compatibility of some Muslim religious practices with Western society. Common sense, one might think, or least subjects fit for fruitful debate.
Not in modern France. Last week, the erstwhile cinema siren went on trial on the charge of inciting “racial hatred against Muslims.” If convicted, she could face a two-month suspended prison sentence and nearly $24,000 in fines.
The basis for the charge is utterly bogus. It stems from a letter that Bardot wrote to President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2006, in which she complained about the practices of Islamic immigrants. In particular, Bardot was put off by the ritual of Eid al-Adha, a Muslim feast in which sheep and goats are slaughtered by having their throats slit. A longtime animal-rights activist, Bardot found the practice abominable.
Her mistake was in thinking that she had the freedom to say so. But as France struggles to control a large (Muslims make up nearly ten percent of the country) and increasingly radicalized Muslim population critics of Islamism are finding themselves more actively persecuted by national authorities than the Islamists themselves.
Bardot is a case in point. Her latest legal woes may seem troubling, but they are only the latest battle in a larger war waged by Islamic radicals and their allies to suppress all criticism of Islam and its more militant and anti-Western incarnations. It speaks to the success of these state-backed exercises in intimidation that Bardot has been convicted for “inciting racial hatred” on four separate occasions.
Bardot’s trials, literal and figurative, at the hands of the Fifth Republic’s multicultural enforcers date back to the early 1990s, when she first spoke out against the slaughtering of animals for religious purposes. Although Bardot directed her attacks against Muslims and Jews, it was her criticism of the former that got her branded as a racist. By 1997, Bardot stood convicted on the charge of “inciting racial hatred” after suggesting in the French daily Le Figaro that France was beset by a “foreign over-population,” including with Muslim immigrants.
It was unclear, then as now, how criticism of a non-racial group, in this case Muslims, could be considered “racist.” Nor was it apparent why an issue as fundamental to the welfare of a nation as immigration was suddenly to be deemed off-limits for discussion. But the Orwellian subtext of the case was impossible to miss: There were some things that French citizens simply were not allowed to discuss.
Bardot pointedly ignored the lesson. The following year, she likened the slaughter of animals in Islamic rituals to the throat-slitting favored by Islamic fundamentalists in North Africa, implying that the connection was not coincidental. It was a provocative point, to be sure, but by no means an unreasonable one. Where the world’s leading religions have shed their cruelest tendencies, Islam as practiced in much of the world – one need only recall the gruesome decapitation murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl – retains its more savage elements.
In any case, criticizing religious practices would seem to be entirely consistent with European free-speech statutes, especially in anticlerical France. And, indeed, a lower court initially found Bardot’s comments to be protected by free-speech laws. That was too much for an appeals court, however, and before long it reversed the decision and slapped Bardot with a fine. Free speech was a fine thing, apparently, so long as it didn’t offend Muslims.
It would not be the last time that Bardot incurred the wrath of French censors. In 2000, she was again convicted of “racist” thought crimes for writing what she called an “Open Letter to My Lost France,” in which she raised concerns about Muslim immigration. As on past occasions, the merits of her concerns were not specifically examined, their focus on Muslims being deemed sufficient proof their unacceptability for public discussion – this even as French banlieues, home to unassimilated Muslim immigrants, seethed with the violent hatred that would erupt in riots across France in 2005.
Bardot was undaunted. In 2003, she again ran afoul of “anti-racism laws” when she published A Cry in the Silence, a book decrying what she called “the Islamisation of France,” and pointing out the obvious ties between the September 11 attacks and Islamic extremism. In that book, Bardot also cautioned against the dangers of rubbishing Western freedoms to accommodate political sensitivities. “For 20 years we have submitted to a dangerous and uncontrolled underground infiltration,” she wrote. “Not only does it fail to give way to our laws and customs. Quite the contrary, as time goes by it tries to impose its own laws on us.” As if to demonstrate her point, French authorities proceeded to fine her 5,000 euros for offending Muslims. (Revealingly, Bardot’s views proved far more popular among the French public, which turned A Cry of Silence into a bestseller.)
To understand just how sinister are the attacks on Bardot it is useful to consider the group that repeatedly has brought suit against her, the Movement Against Racism And For Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP). Inaccurately called a human-rights group, the MRAP is in fact an aggressive silencer of free-speech.
Its most famous contribution to French political life was to thwart the sale of the late Oriana Fallaci’s 2002 book, Anger and Pride, on the grounds that it supposedly incited racial hatred against Muslims. Similarly, when Bardot published A Cry in the Silence in 2003, the MRAP pronounced it “unacceptable,” thus appointing itself the arbiter of what French citizens should and should not be allowed to read.
But of course groups like the MRAP would be inconsequential were it not for the dangerous proclivity of the French legal establishment for treating their fictitious allegations of racism with unmerited seriousness. In this context, it was illuminating when a French prosecutor last week called for unusually stiff penalties against Bardot in the current case against the actress because she was a “bit tired of trying Madame Bardot.” How much easier it would be for that civil servant and countless others like her if nuisances like Bardot would simply surrender their right to speak freely.
Bardot may not be the most artful of social commentators, but then she doesn’t need to be. Nothing demonstrates the prescience of her warnings – not least her warning about the dangers of sacrificing Western liberties to accommodate the extreme demands of hostile minority groups – so much as the ongoing efforts of the French state to silence the woman it once hailed as an idol.
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Sphere: Related ContentNinety percent of businesses are struggling to contain the phenomenon of ‘anonymous proxies’, websites used to bypass URL filtering security, according to a new survey.
The survey was carried out by filtering outfit Bloxx, which asked a sample of 146 companies across a range of sectors plus a portion of its own customer base, to assess whether proxies were causing them problems.
Only 10 percent said they weren’t a problem at all, leaving the remainder to describe it as a ‘minor problem’ (37 percent), a ‘fairly serious problem’ (36 percent), and a ‘major problem’ (15 percent).
Nearly 59 percent thought the issue had grown in the last year, with 8 percent claiming it now consumed more than four hours per week of precious IT time. A quarter of those asked reckoned the issue was becoming difficult to contain.
Statistics can’t tell the whole story, but these suggest that the issue has crept up on IT departments which even after years of security investment still have few tools to help them cope. “Anonymous proxies are a huge problem which has grown significantly over the past few years, especially within education,” said Eamonn Doyle, managing director of Bloxx.
“Relying on a URL database web filter alone to quickly detect and block anonymous proxies would now appear to be problematic and can certainly expose an organisation to a high level of risk,” he concluded. No information was gleaned on what is perhaps the most interesting part of the proxy story – what is driving people to use them.
A ‘fight club’ bake-off between a range of URL filtering products held at this month’s RSA security show concluded that when confronted with porn, all URL filters appear to work well. The problem is that it didn’t measure filtering systems against proxies, which one vendor, Watchguard, said few could cope with. Conclusion: URL filtering is obsolete.
Bloxx – which promotes its own Tru-View technology to block proxies – hinted that in the corporate sphere it was social networking and not porn that was creating the demand for proxying websites. One answer might lie with simply permitting access to these sites for the Facebook generation as a policy, in a stroke taking away a user’s motivation for using proxies in the first place.
Sphere: Related ContentWith crude oil prices hitting new all time highs, solar power clearly has the momentum and is helping bring about a transformational shift in corporate energy usage.
Solar’s rapid expansion on the corporate energy efficiency front is good news for companies in the solar food chain – ranging from producers of polysilicon, to the manufacturers of solar cells, to the service firms that install solar systems.
Moreover, this year solar energy may get an additional boost, since U.S. lawmakers appear likely to pass the extension of a key solar-industry tax credit. The bill, if passed, would extend the 30% commercial tax credit by eight years and the residential credit by one year and would remove a $2,000 cap on residential systems. Importantly, utilities would be able to take advantage of the credit for the first time.
According to Levine, the companies best positioned to ride this solar wave are major photovoltaics manufacturers like First Solar (FSLR), SunPower Corp. (SPWR) and Suntech Power Holdings (STP) – each of whom are leading the solar industry ever closer to the “Holy Grail” of grid parity, thereby driving demand in the corporate, utilities and home markets.
Along with solar power, there is another standout in the corporate race towards greater energy efficiency.
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· 26% of corporate respondents say their company has used Less energy than normal over the past 6 months
· Only 16% say they’ve used More
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· 22% report their company is Very Concerned about reducing energy usage
· 35% Somewhat Concerned
Spending on Energy Efficient Products And Technologies – Next 6 Months
· 23% say they will Increase Spending
· 8% say they will Decrease Spending
Top Alternative Energy Technology – It’s Solar Power
· 8% say company currently uses alternative energy technologies
· 21% say they’ll install alt energy equipment in next 5 years
Leading Types of Alt Energy Equipment to be Installed
· Solar (72%)
· Wind (19%)
Biggest Barriers to Installation
· 39% initial capital investment
· 24% unattractive payback period
Top Product Being Purchased Next 6 Months
· 28% Energy efficient lighting
· 13% Solar power
· 13% Energy efficient computer hardware
· 10% HVAC Systems
· 9% Fuel efficient vehicles
· 7% Server Virtualization
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Lighting Purchased –
Past 6 Months
· Regular Florescent (42%)
· Compact Florescent (39%)
· LED Lighting (14%)
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· Regular Florescent (31%)
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Sphere: Related ContentOne can only presume that the previously unpublished revelation that London was a simultaneous target of the 9/11 attacks. At the planning stages of the New York and Washington attacks, Al Qaeda realized that Britain would most likely support any punitive American action against the organization and its Afgan hosts, the Taliban , and so planned a simultaneous attempt to destroy the British Houses of Parliament by crashing into it a British Airways jumbo jet hijacked from Heathrow airport. Muhammad Afroz, an Indian suicide pilot , trained in Melbourne, Australia and Britain was subsequently arrested in Mumbai, India. On the basis of interrogation of suspected Indian agents , Indian intelligence came to believe that Al Qaeda had infiltrated a suicide team into Britain to attack the Houses of Parliament.
Indeed Afroz’s cell was one of three highly trained Al Qaeda teams - the other two being assigned to India and Australia. In addition to striking Westminster in an airborne attack , they also had plans to attack the Tower Bridge on the river Thames, but the latter target was dropped in early September. The suicide team was to hijack a British Airways jet bound from London to Mumbai on September 9 , 2001 ( the original dates scheduled for the Washington and New York attacks), but in an encrypted message received at the last moment from their Al Qaeda operational commander in America, the operation was postponed to September 11 , 2001.
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Sphere: Related ContentThere was less sea ice in the Arctic than ever before listed in recorded records. Melting is continuing. The National Snow and Ice Center has reported “There is at the least sea ice that has ever been seen in the satellite records. “the polar regions are expected to feel the impact of climate change sooner and to a greater extent than other regions of earth.
Sphere: Related ContentWhen Hitler set out to conquer the world, it was American blood, treasure and determination that stopped him. When the Soviet Union set out to subject the world to communism, it was American blood, treasure and determination that stopped it. If the Muslim extremists’ quest to subject the world to radical Islam is to be stopped, it will, once again, take American blood, treasure and determination.
It may be true that the Islamic extremists who call for world domination represent only a minority of the world’s Muslims. Minority or not, it is they who drive the Muslim agenda and unashamedly slaughter untold thousands of people in the name of their Allah. They claim their authority comes from the Quran – the same Quran, and the same Allah, the rest of the Muslim world worships. Consequently, all Muslims must bear the responsibility for the inhumane actions of the extremist minority.
If the extremists are such a minority of the Muslim population, why does the majority not put a stop to the extremists? There can be only two possible answers: either the majority is in agreement with the goals, if not the tactics, of the extremists, or the majority is incapable of controlling the minority. Both answers are probably correct. When a cartoonist published a caricature of Allah, Muslims around the world filled the streets in protest. Were they all extremists, or just in agreement with the goals of the extremists?
By contrast, the image of Christ is desecrated regularly, and the public response is “ho-hum.”
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