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Islamic Law Is Clearly Against Terrorism, Against Any Kind Of Deliberate Killing Of Civilians Or Similar 'collateral Damage.'

There Are Moderates In Israel. There Are Moderates In Iran, There Are Moderates In The Republican Party, Moderates In The Democratic Party. What We Need To Do Is We Need Link All Of These Moderates Together And To Figure Out A Way By Which This Particular Coalition Can Speak To Important Issues To Marginalize The Voice Of The Extremists.

In Malaysia, Where Western Culture Was Extremely Influential, I'd Grown Up Listening To Elvis And The Beatles And Watching American Movies. People Wanted To Be Like Americans. In Contrast, When I Got Here, I Saw Prosperous Middle-class American College Students Wanting To Somehow Join The Third World.

The Thing About The Islamic Situation Is We Don't Have A Church. We Don't Have An Ordained Priesthood, Which Makes It A Little Complicated. But We Do Have A Tradition Of Scholarship, And Rules Of Scholarship. It's Very Much Like Any Field Of Knowledge.

We Tend To Forget In The West That The United States Has More Muslim Blood On Its Hands Than Al Qaeda Has On Its Hands Of Innocent Non-muslims.