The Obama statement about engaging Muslims will not work. Islam’s war against the West and all Others is not caused by poverty or ignorance, the cause is religion and ideology which are coupled together to tightly that it is difficult to know the difference.
The problem is that the West and Islam operate in two different moral universes.
We in the West operate with a bipolar morality of good and evil that we admit can be personal and that our conscience must arbitrate, whereas the Muslim operates with a bipolar morality of Muslims are good and the other is evil, without conscience. The morality of the West does not map to the morality of the Muslim. The Muslim very clearly sees the internal conflicted nature of the West and plays upon that conflict to keep us at odds with ourselves.
Islam uses our multiculturalism and its language to strike at our internal conflicted nature which is our Achilles Heel. So even when we attack we are on the defensive. We are perpetually off balance. Muslims have a single minded nature that does not reflect on itself.
