Comments on: There Is A Tide

By: George

George — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:55:44 +0000

Aaahh.. What about Radical Judaism? Radical Jews who run the state of Israel today.. Or some of us here like to only talk about the ‘sexy’ topic of radical Islam because it benefits their so-called blogs (don’t mean this one). Check this out, it will make you sick in your stomach: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29837969/from/ET/

Geo

By: jack

jack — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:01:49 +0000

http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2009/05/israels-complexity.html

A solid blog, by the way.

By: jack

jack — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:57:58 +0000

you might call it radical conservatism that is being beat back. we are of course mixing up words and their nuances.

By: Horace Jeffery Hodges

Horace Jeffery Hodges — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:02:09 +0000

What we’re seeing in some places, Ulyses, is a victory of conservatism over radialism. Al Qaeda and the Taliban are both based on radical interpretations of Islam, and both have tended to alienate ordinary Muslims in places where they’ve come into power. Suicide terrorism directed against Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq has also made Islamism less palatable to the average, conservative Muslim. But democracy will take root slowly in some of these places and will not necessarily look like Western democracy with its distinction between religion and state. Think of Iran, which has a rather vigorous democratic system . . . but overseen by religious authorities. That may eventually change, but who can say when?

Jeffery Hodges

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By: Ulyses

Ulyses — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:55:13 +0000

I see a world in which forces of radical hatred are being beaten back by common people.
People want just to have a good life all over the place. I have high hopes for the voices of reason and what that entails. Conservatism in all forms is no way to govern the people. It has failed. All people want to be able to live their lives how they see fit without some towel head or religious nut telling them how to do it. Religious freedom from radical dogma of all flavors is what is needed. I support Iran’s people fight for their religious freedom.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:46:49 +0000

Indeed. It is a 2way street. All, including the right wing govt. of Israel, need to put an exceptional effort for this to work. US of course is not going to abandon Israel, but needs to make it clear that America’s security comes first and foremost.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:48:50 +0000

Nor are we, or should we be, about to abandon Israel, our staunchest ally in the region. The Muslim nations of the Middle East, for whom the Palestinians have been little more than pawns in a 60-year-old power struggle, also need to recalibrate their attitude toward Israel if any progress is to be made.

We’ll see how this goes.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:23:24 +0000

Just proves that when you extend a gesture of peace and respect (Obama’s speech), people in that region respond well and in kind . I think Obama single handedly has accomplished what the soft-targeting Israeli “army” failed to do, and that is; defeating Hizeballa, who was up in the polls before the speech.
Lets hope he (Obama) uses the momentum, to convince people in the US that having a ‘Just’ solution to the Palestinian people is key to the US national interest and security, and we should not be bullied and dragged into conflict with 1.5 B people, by war hawks, hate speech neoconservatives, who would prefer, according to Danial Pipes, to have ahmedinajad win, because he is an easy excuse to wage wars on Muslims. We cannot have people with double passports(Radical Jewish Israelis) write our foreign policies.