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Flame » in reply to re: The pointlessness of the argument on terrorism

more than enough evidence to come to a conclusion
FrankC — (archived)

Ah there's the rub.

The evidence is the same but the conclusions are different. That is what makes argument pointless and frustrating, not that it will or should stop.

The only hope for a peaceful outcome is for the moderate muslims to believe time is on their side and turn on the radicals for their intractibility. So far it doesn't look promising. I think that moderate muslim clerics fear that the center cannot hold over an extended period, so they stand silent.

The fact is, for those radicals or moderates who favor Islamic rule, time is probably not on their side. Given a reasonable period of peace and prosperity, the mass of Islam might become more secular and turn away from radical ways, the way that the Russians turned away from the communist state.

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