Is There Hope?
Reader comment on item: [The RAND Corporation and] Fixing Islam

Submitted by Hannah Hall (United States), Apr 6, 2004 at 20:17

Enjoyed your article and appreciate information it contained. But - with the problems the West is having in Iraq and elsewhere, what, in your opinion, is the outlook for eliminating the fundamentalist threat and replacing it with the more moderate groups?

Right now, this prospect appears to be impossible. How can the West ever hope to accomplish anything positive when the schools, mosques, clerics and especially the so-called "Islam civil rights" groups are so active and preach/teach such hatred? Until these fundamentalists who advocate violence are either eliminated or neutralized, we will continue to be at risk. I, for one, have no desire to live under Islamic rule!

Will look forward to additional articles on your web site.

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