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Let me clarify. I was playing devil's advocate earlier.
As to the larger issue, I think there is only one way that Islam will lose its reputation for terrorism, and that's if and only if the majority of Muslims out there in the world break their 'silence', and actively and vociferously denounce those that use violence to achieve their ends. Muslim terrorists need to be ferreted out, denounced, and demonized by that majority of their own faith that has heretofore ignored/downplayed their despicable deeds. No, it won't work immediately, and in the meantime, that's where our boys with the M4s come in. But over time, opinions will change and moderate.
But that's a big 'if'. And it depends on the willingness of the world Muslim community to denounce those that would do violence on their supposed "behalf", which is something that we are definitely not seeing right now.
--Dan
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"I have seen much war in my lifetime and I hate it profoundly. But there are things worse than war; and all of them come with defeat." -- Hemingway
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