April 11, 2004
IT'S THEOCONSERVATISM, NOT NEO:
US: From nation-building to religion-building (Jim Lobe, 4/09/04, Asia Times)
One thing that can be said about United States neo-conservatives is that they do not lack for ambition."We need an Islamic reformation," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz confided on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq last year, "and I think there is real hope for one".
Echoing those views one year later, another prominent neo-conservative, Daniel Pipes of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum (MEF), recently declared that the "ultimate goal" of the war on terrorism had to be Islam's modernization, or, as he put it, "religion-building".
Reform of Islam is an ambitious plan, but the alternatives are terrible. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 11, 2004 9:28 AM
Isn't it interesting thatthe same crowd that can't possibly abide Christian prayer in school are all for children receiving indoctrination in islam as part of the multiculti mishmash that gets served up these days in school?
Posted by: M.Murcek at April 11, 2004 10:23 AMThat's because they think of Islam as a cute native custom rather than a religion, while they fear that Christianity is a religion that might disapprove of some things they do. Who cares what the cute peasants think?
Posted by: Arnold Williams at April 11, 2004 8:12 PMPersonally, I tend to be suspicious of a religion founded by a former armed robber and murderer....
Posted by: PapayaSF at April 11, 2004 8:56 PMand rapist and child molester.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at April 13, 2004 8:15 PM