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3) An alternative social system for the muslims. One element involves Islam has is own reformation, with the jihadis and islamofascists marginalized. It will also require changes within the muslim world in terms of education, empowering women, political and economic systems. Young muslim men need a future. People with a future don't blow themselves up, unless their deepest held beliefs tell them that is the greatest aspiration they have. Let them fight for their own future (like in Iraq) and relegate the "72 Virgin" crowd to the freakshow tent within the muslim world.

I agree. Many Americans may read Hal Lindsay or "Left Behind" books and it doesn't affect their day-to-day lives. But Muslims are being bombarded with propaganda that these are the Last Days, that there is No Future, and to poor people living in economically depressed systems with repressive social structures, this is having an awful impact.

And I do mean bombarded. Try this for a pull quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1407366/posts
"The Muslim media from Egypt to Pakistan consistently paint al-Qaeda, the US-led 'war on terror', the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and events such as those in Uzbekistan in the perspective of the 'End of Time' and Har Megiddo."

These people need to believe in a future. They need an education that gives them something to live for (especially the women). And they need political democracy so they feel they have some say in their nation's future.

If there's no future, why not join the Mahdi's army, strap on a dynamite belt and walk up to the nearest Alliance soldiers?

Many Americans may read Hal Lindsay or "Left Behind" books and it doesn't affect their day-to-day lives.

Actually, it may well affect their lives, but it does not impel them to strap on a junk laden vest loaded with the 'Mother of Satan' and go hobnob in a crowd somewhere.

Christianity preaches a future, if not in this life, then in the next, without slaughter as a prerequisite.