I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.
It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.