given that CM and sepoy have graciously been my own personal “Islam for Dummies”, i commend sepoy for translating this piece and posting it.

the author raises some excellent points about the hazards that arise when religious leaders use their influence for political gain (see The Catholic Church for further examples) and that the jihad movements are now devolving into muslim-on-muslim violence, the recent highway car bomb attack in iraq and the murder of a turkish hostage providing recent examples.

hopefully this editorial will raise some serious questions within the moderate muslim majority over how the fundamentalist wing has taken over the PR for an entire population and what can be done to purge it, either from within or with outside assistance.

i can only hope that that can begin with christians State-side, too.