The Logic and Strategy of Suicide Terrorism

[Cute Wolf]

This is the crux of this matter. Not all Muslims stand for the same thing, in the same way as not all Christians, aethiests or whatever else stand for the same thing.

Personaly, I have a big problem with the denial of equality for women and the favorisation of any group (religious or other) over another. So I deplore the instances where such has been attempted as you describe above. Similarly, I abhore the situation in Saudi on this matter.

Not all Muslims stand for these things, and those that do, I would have issue with. The problem is that there is a tendency to label the whole of Islam and all Muslims as intolerant fanatics -which they aren't!

Extremism and militancy are the problems, not a religion.

Labeling the whole of Islam and Muslims as terrorists actually plays into the hands of Al-Qaida -by rejecting and ignoring the non-extremist Muslims. It focuses more attention on Osama as the supposed voice of all Muslims -which is completely wrong. The more polarised views become, the more likely a conflict -intolerance breeds conflict.

But ironically, what Hax have done... will almost spur their growth, because they install some sense of security barrier in the western wolrd, by saying that quran doesn't order killing of kaffirs... and such denial of any harmful ideas...

My Translation From Ulil Abshar Abdalla (the president of Liberal Islamic Network of Indonesia) :

But the truth is just simple, quran did have the killing of infidels... but that was more for philoshopical tought, and you should inspect their "background story", before interpreting them towards today's live... and inspect ourself, what can we do to improve the wellness of others, wellness of our family, and the wellness of ourself?