| Clarino,
No, I don't agree that my experience with Iraqi POWs gives me an unbalanced reflection of Muslim opinion. Iraqi POWs were pretty representative of the population as a whole. Saadam conscripted his soldiers from the general population. The officers were generally fairly well educated and the enlisted men were taken from the lower-through-middle classes. They were overwhelmingly Muslim. They may have hated Saadam, but they hated us, too.
We were very careful with those guys.
I'm not nearly as worried about the Muslims in the UK or Detroit as I am the ones in the Mid-East. The Muslim family in Safeway doesn't bother me. It's the ones all through South Asia that will be causing the trouble for the next several decades, at least. |