Al Ahram Reports on Intergrating Extremists

A very interesting piece from the Eqyptian weekly ...

Integrating Islamists: Political inclusion is the best way to blunt extremist currents within Islam, writes Ammar Ali Hassan*
Al-Ahram Weekly

Counter-violence has not succeeded in burying extremist Islamist groups. Nor has it limited or weakened them to the point of stripping their efficacy or marginalising them into inactivity, making them incapable of recruiting or mobilising followers. Counter-violence has also not prevented Islamist groups from challenging the authorities, whether through symbolic rhetoric or through real actions ranging from the circulation of inimical leaflets to the perpetration of acts of extreme violence.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/op12.htm

Al Jazeera Readers speak about Gaza ...

Once again it is very interesting and revealing to read how readers around the word sound off about Gaza in an Al Jazeera opinion section ...

Can Gaza find peace?

An Israeli energy company has cut back fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip as Israel attempts to isolate the Hamas movement after it took control of the coastal territory. Can Gaza find peace? Send us your views.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E9A36960-AB5A-43E7-A637-4628328249EB.htm?&choice=3&dgDiscID=164&dgPoolID=0f59991e-6676-4014-ad8d-e46bb059be44

Victor Davis Hanson on Hypocrisy and Civilization

June 19, 2007
Hypocrisy That Undermines Civilization
By Victor Davis Hanson

There is only a thin veneer that separates civilization from man's innate barbarity. Some 2,500 years ago the historian Thucydides once warned us about the irony of revolutionaries and insurrectionists destroying this fragile patina of culture, as if they themselves might be exempt from ever wanting it back again.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/civilization.html