Here’s an almost unbelievable dose of radical Islamic propaganda from the terrorists’ PR firm, Reuters, repeating the Islamic fascist claim that fighting terrorism only breeds more terrorism—an argument for surrender: Political Islam takes center stage since 9-11.

The U.S. response to 9-11, when 19 Arabs struck a deadly blow to the heart of the world’s only superpower, has driven more people toward Islamist politics, analysts say.

“American actions against political Islam after September 11 have ironically contributed to its further rise and emergence, even in its most fanatical, extremist forms,” said Lebanese-born academic As’ad AbuKhalil, who teaches in California.

The United States has invaded Iraq and backed Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, presenting both policies as part of a plan to spread democracy in a dysfunctional Arab world.

Public opinion in the region has traditionally seen a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict as the key to solving the region’s problems of democracy and religious extremism. [And that “resolution” involves destroying the state of Israel, but let’s not mention that… —ed.]

“Moderate Muslims are having a difficult time. They are not at peace with the radicals, but they cannot somehow make their point heard convincingly in the West,” said Jawad al-Anani, a former Jordanian government minister of Palestinian origin.

President George W. Bush’s recent comment that the United States is battling “Islamic fascists” has crystallized a widespread sense that the “war on terror” is a war on Islam, Anani said.

“The Islamists have some … valid arguments. They say ‘we are fighting your enemies, who don’t do anything to solve your problems, who take Israel’s side blindly, who don’t show any sympathy for Muslims being killed in Palestine or Iraq’.”