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The insurgents hope to pull Mosul apart by targeting those people best-placed to help unify it. Threats and assassinations often target the city's professional classes, workers in its economically vital oil industry and known political moderates. "Anyone who advocates freedom and democracy is considered to be publicly for...
Denouncing Islamic Terrorism It is good that TIME highlighted the fact that there are moderate Muslims who denounce Islamic terrorism and strive for a more tolerant and open interpretation of Islam [Sept. 13]. Sadly, many of those Muslims learned their moderation from contact with the West; current Islamic culture by...
WE NEED CONCRETE PLANS FOR HOW Kerry would improve things. Many conservatives and moderates are not overly pleased with Bush's record of decision making. Kerry's platform, however, isn't a reasonable alternative. He has reinforced the perception that his strongest point is that he's not Bush. On...
The Struggle Within Islam Your story described a battle for the soul of Islam between tolerant moderates and hateful extremists who are a threat to all [Sept. 20]. You seemed to link religious piety with violence and terrorism. That is a simplification and misses the point that faith and consciousness...
THERE ARE PARALLELS BETWEEN FUNDAmentalist Christianity and radical Islam. Both see no valid interpretation of Scripture other than the literal one. Both use propaganda and fear to win over skeptical moderates, and both see religious compromise as a sign of weakness. The rise of radical Islam along with unbending, uncompromising...