“arguments that supposedly don’t merit being taken seriously”
“even as it is being shown up for the pathetic, defeatable, redneck movement that it is”
Really??? this pathetic movement simultaneously hijacked 3 planes one day, and they coordinated that around the world from a shack in a goat village in Afghanistan of all places. They have a propaganda machine, al-jazerra, and websites and tech way beyond what I would call redneck.
And although this may be the end of just the beginning there are too few of these types of internal struggles within Islam being unearthed to make Westerners believe that some sort of change or revolution is coming. If these are the type of positive results that the US goverment is looking for within Islam as a whole, then this has been gained by going to fight them in Afghanistan and Iraq. So do not expect that to stop until Islam is more inline with the rest of the world religions, fine as beliefs but utterly ridiculous in practice. When the Arab street understands that then the world will be at peace until then the West is smart to be wary.
