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The world becomes cosmopolitan, people of many races and nations share their culture's pecularities and get to know about the cultural experience of the world. But religion, being something truly intim and deeply bound with the principles of believers, still creates the wall between people. And is really a matter of urgent attention today. Islam is a religion promoting violence against unbelievers. Islam, conceived in the pagan tribal society of the Arabian Peninsula, is the only major religion encouraging killing in the cause of God. Muslims throughout the world cheered the September 11th 2001 attack on the United States that killed some 3,000 people, despite its condemnation by fearful Moslem rulers. Moslem clerics applauded it as a victory of true believers fulfilling the will of Allah or remained silent.

Still, the faith is always inside. And it can't be learnt, it can't be imposed. And the only thing a person knows straight from his heart is the right definition for the word freedom. Freedom is the unlimited ability in a good cause. And the freedom of faith lies deep within the soul. The unique and infine soul. Your soul.

But let's find out the reason of such a devil's faith in the hearts of God's children. It is instructive to begin with the Koran, which exerts far more influence on the Muslims than the Bible does on Christians or Jews. Sura 5 contains the statement: "O Believers! Do not take the Jews or Christians as friends. They are but one another's friends. If any one of you takes them for his friends, he surely is one of them!" Sura 9 says bluntly: "...kill those who join other gods with Allah wherever you shall find them; and seize them, besiege them and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush." It instructs the believer to let them go only if they convert to Islam. Later it explains that Christians "join other gods with Allah" because they believe that the Messiah son of Mary is the son of God. The Jews - because they say "Ezra is a son of God" (which is a lie - they don't.)

Nearly all Moslem states were given their independence during the past 55 years. Except for Turkey and arguably Indonesia, they are dictatorships where the ruler and his establishment receive the lion's share of national income and foreign aid receipts. Corruption is rife throughout the Moslem world. The system, which keeps the large majority of the people poor, is a fertile breeding ground for Islamic terrorism - partly because poor Muslims tend to seek comfort in religion and partly because the sponsors of terrorism find it easy to recruit and recently have paid families of suicide bombers particularly well. As a result, Islamic fundamentalism has been spreading rapidly, side by side with the radicalization of the more "secular", including large sections of the intelligentsia and many officials of the ruling regimes. This trend has been enormously strengthened by the extremism of the Moslem religious establishments.

Iran remained the only Moslem state ruled by the Shiite sect of Islam, though the Alawi sect that controls Syria since Hafez Al-Assad became its ruler is probably closer to the Shiites than to the Sunnis. The Sunnis rulers of the Shiite majority were always concidered as the weakest element in Islam. The rough Shiites faith utterly incinerated the Sunnis more dispassionate one in Iran. Islam regards concessions and withdrawals as weakness, as lack of faith in your own cause. No thanks were offered for the "decolonization" of Moslem oil and gas resources owned and developed by Western companies, or for the American intervention enabling Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal built and financed by Britain and France. Mosques all over the Arab world, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh began to resound with cries that America was the Great Satan and crowds burning US flags became a frequent spectacle. Other Moslem states and Moslem public opinion in non-Moslem countries were also affected.

When Moslem and Western interests clashed head on or when Moslem terrorists killed Western soldiers, the West usually retreated. This further increased the contempt Islam felt for the West. It also was and remains the prime cause of the rapid growth of Islamic terrorism.

This darkness within can't be killed. If not to turn the light on. Still, Europeans and the USA understand the urgent attention to the East today. Nobody want's the war. But everyone suffers the war of the hearts. The West must understand, that Muslims know much more about it. They must take into a count a constant fear, that roots deeply into an Islamic faith and what all the Muslims are used to.

The greatest mistakes the West can make during its war against Moslem terrorism - which is a war for the survival of non-Moslem civilizations - is to allow fear to influence its decisions and to underrate the enemy. Moslem leaders can smell fear at a distance of 10,000 miles. At this point of time, when "that bundle of Christianity and liberalism which constitutes contemporary Western civilization" faces the possibility of defeat and extinction, those attempting to save it must be courageous and as ruthless in confronting their enemy as he is in confronting them. And everyone, each human being must feel, that any darkness in the heart can be ruined if to turn the light on. Because we all assume responsibility of being the God's children.

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