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Recent days have illustrated Arafat’s lack of control, and more importantly the Palestinian people’s unwillingness to submit to his orders and authority. Arafat’s security forces shot and killed two supporters of Osama bin Laden last week, infuriating the Palestinian public and leading to the ransacking of several Palestinian Authority buildings and police stations. Arafat, determined to avoid the embarrassment and loss of political capital that resulted from his support of Saddam Hussein in 1991, was determined to quell the sentiments of the protesters, who vehemently disagreed with his perspective. Hamas...
...this as a war about religious fundamentalism; I think of it as a war against political extremism. We already know, indeed, we have known, that millions of people around the world (many of them non-Muslims, many of them in our own country) share the political views of Osama bin Laden...
...have millions of terrorists on our hands is because these people disagree with his tactics. In Wednesday’s New York Times article about Muslims in Britain, a British man was quoted as saying, “Put aside his methodology and what’s [bin Laden] actually saying?” The former stockbroker who condemned the Sept. 11 attacks continued, “He is only saying what all the Arabs in the world want to say but cannot say in their own country...
...their extreme political terrorist offshoots have been resolved successfully by bringing the political moderates into a position where they have more to gain by participating in a democratic political process than by implicitly allowing extremists to wage war (as Muslim leaders do when they fail to publicly condemn bin Laden and his followers). At a crucial moment in the process, it becomes detrimental to the goals of the political movement to condone violent extremists, and then, usually, they are self-policed into oblivion. This week the legitimate political wing of the Northern Ireland nationalist movement (Sinn Fein), for instance, asked...
These examples are much smaller, national political movements, compared to the broad, cross-national political movement bin Laden has hijacked. I think that the millions of people who believe like Osama bin Laden that Palestinians are oppressed by Israel and that sanctions should be lifted against Iraq—but who despise his methodology—are also frustrated by a system of global coercion they feel is undemocratic. America has brushed off the democratic process of the U.N. We have strong-armed our allies into having our way, and we have ignored dissent in the world. We have pursued...