[mukto-mona] Fwd: ARTICLE BY THOMAS FRIEDMAN, NYTimes

We had a civil war in America in the mid-19th century because we had a lot of people who believed bad things — namely that you could enslave people because of the color of their skin. We defeated those ideas and the individuals, leaders and institutions that propagated them..........

Islam needs the same civil war. It has a violent minority that believes bad things: that it is O.K. to not only murder non-Muslims — "infidels," who do not submit to Muslim authority — but to murder Muslims as well who will not accept the most rigid Muslim lifestyle and submit to rule by a Muslim caliphate.

What is really scary is that this violent, jihadist minority seems to enjoy the most "legitimacy" in the Muslim world today.

 

Read the full article :

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/opinion/16friedman.html?em

NY Times, 16th Dec, 2009

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