According to
Deepak Chopra, they are:
Once he becomes president, Barack Obama has no choice but to confront the problem of religious extremism boiling over from the Arab world. He would do well not to attack this as a religious problem, however, or an extremist one. The jihadis are like the point of a knife that has a long blade and a handle that controls it. In this case the handle is Islam itself. If America keeps making terrorism an Islamic issue (based on the neocons' avowed Christianity and ingrained sense of moral superiority), the handle will continue to twist the blade.
Someone should tell
The American Conservative. There's also this beaut from Chopra:
There are already enough counter forces working to modernize Islam. Cell phones, texting, computers, the Internet, and satellite news are slowly doing the work that America's military power has failed to do.
Umm, weren't the Mumbai terrorists using Blackberries? Isn't this one of the big stories of the past decade, the utilization, for savage ends, of technological means?
