This article in The New Statesman looks at the fight within Islam, and attempts by a variety of Muslim groups in South Asia to take it in a more "humanistic" direction.
Putting on my "Westerner" hat for a moment I think that one of the deepest tragedies of the president's foreign policy is that it may very well be stoking and strengthening the harshest and most violent and reactionary Islamist movements at a time (after September 11th and an earlier strong of defeats for for the radicals) when there was a tremedous opportunity for these types of people to win converts and achieve successes.
Posted by armand at October 1, 2004 05:00 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs