Perhaps Terrorists Really Do Speak For Islam by Greg Lewis

"The time has come to consider, not whether it is Islamo-fascists who are waging war against the United States and Israel, but rather whether it is Islam itself that is waging war against us. Indeed, while Islamist terrorists are numerically a relatively small segment of Islam, there are so few Muslim voices being raised even against the most heinous atrocities the Islamists commit that it is not inaccurate to say that Muslims in general desire the fall of the west at the hands of their terrorist forces.
It's not, of course, a simple or straightforward matter. Islamic terrorist factions exert powerful influence over other Muslims, especially in the Middle East, through tactics that range from direct intimidation through more subtle coercion down to what amounts to outright bribery.
The city of Baghdad, with its weekly catalogue of grotesqueries that invariably include the discovery of the bodies of citizens tortured and beheaded for the simple reason that they had the misfortune to belong to the 'wrong' Islamic sect, has become a constant reminder to all Muslims of the risks involved in standing up against the mass slaughter of their co-religionists at the hands of monsters.
And although the pace of the sectarian massacres has lessened significantly, don't expect acknowledgment of this initial success of the American troop surge from Democrats and the mainstream media any time soon. Harry Reid's typically blank mien seems to get even blanker, if that's possible, when anyone mentions that progress is being made in securing Baghdad as a result of the troop surge and changing Iraqi governmental policies."

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