jihad

Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ’sleeper cells’ or ’sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ticking time bombs inside our own ranks.”
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Let’s say a preacher appeared on a massively popular TV show and offered scriptural justification for an unprovoked attack on a foreign country. What would you say? “Oh, there goes Yusuf Qaradawi again”? Or maybe, “I truly hope these people turn away from bin Laden like some of their colleagues have“? Or perhaps, “How is [...]

Here’s Peter Bergen, author of two books on Al Qaeda and the only man in this room who’s met Osama bin Laden. Yet he doesn’t take on Hoffmann.
Instead, he muses on the “underlying causes of Al Qaeda.”