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(Feature Article) There is an Islamic mindset best described by a word used extensively in the Muslim world, infidel, an expression that conjures up the notion of theological inferiority. This term refers to the unclean, the unknowing, anyone who does not follow the dogmatic interpretation of Mohammed's Qur'an. I would like to think that obdurate-Islam was inherent to the Talaban and terrorist groups, but surveys of Muslims in the Middle East, and even in America, reveal overwhelming resentment toward any opinion that does not patronize the Palestinian cause. All the while, Islamic nations show contempt toward Palestinians by denying them work and citizenship in their own countries. There is only one explainable reason for this behavior: The Palestinians are Muslim, Jews are not. Nations half a continent away -- Morocco, Algeria, and Indonesia -- with little economic or cultural connections to the Palestinians, hate the Jews and Americans who support them because Jews exist on ancient Islamic claims. The Islamic world hated Saddam Hussein but despise Americans and Jews more, for only one definable reason; we are not Muslim. The world has never experience such exclusionary thinking since the mid 1930s and '40s. Politicians won't say it but I will: This is truly a Second Holy War, a struggle for humanities ability to reason, a battle on behalf of theological tolerance. I know this sounds harsh, and I may have unjustly cast a net over all of Islam, but the obvious needed to be said. There is hope though, MidEastWeb and PocketOpinion.Com illustrate rational positions by Muslims, Jews, and Christians. The peace process in the Middle East must address more than the contention of the Palestinians because Islam's concern for the Palestinian claim has proven to be a front. The real issue is revisionist-theology -- whether it be Christian, Jew, or Muslim -- and whether it's possible for people with 1st century thinking to exist in peace. Lee Garret |