Bin Laden's Soft Support

How the next president can win over the world's most alienated Muslims.

There's an Indonesian custom called jagongan which holds that the most important conversations occur by talking through the night, and on that evening, we discovered the potency of jagongan firsthand.

Initially, the students took up their leader's refrain.... As the night wore on, the tone began to shift. Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

This is an interesting story based on polls that seem to show that support for bin Laden and terror is vocal but thin in Islamic countries and that the anti-Americanism that feeds it is based principally on the perception that the U.S. is not respectful of Islam or the views of Moslems and their right for self determination -- not on a dislike for the U.S. way of life.

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