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'Terror expert' Walid Shoebat's fraudulent claims exposed by CNN

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researchok7/15/2011 4:24:37 am PDT

I would add one more thing.

Shoebat’s entire raison d’etre is not unlike that of Pam Geller. They believe the entire Islamic culture/religion is both broken and irredeemable.

That of course, is their right.

Now, let’s put that into perspective.

How much credibility would we assign snyone who espoused the view that the entire black culture is broken and irredeemable?

How much credibility would we assign snyone who espoused the view that the entire Jewish culture and religion is broken and irredeemable?

You get the point.

Muslims carry a double burden because most of what is dysfunctional about contemporary Islamic culture and religious extremism has been foisted upon them by the same people who want to blow us to kingdom come. That is to say the vast majority of Muslims are victims of political/cultural/religious extremism even more than we are because they are subject to an iron boot that has broken them down for decades. There can and will be no redemption for those who have broken down their own.

Muslims are forced to carry the burden of those very dysfunctional regimes who oppress them. The Shoebats and others of his ilk only exploit that reality and add to the problem.

There are no quick answers or easy solutions to terror. The starting point however, is to acknowledge that broad strokes with big brushes only exacerbate the problem.