Muslims must tame Muslims

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." E.M. Forster

An August 15,2006 online article from the Wall Street Journal was written by Mr. Farrukh Dhondy. The article was about how the Muslim community has to tame the radical Muslims. I couldn't agree more. In order to help the moderate Muslims change the minds of the radicals the United States must make itself invisible in the middle east. Any aid to the moderate Muslims should come from free trade. Private companies will sell ipods and cell phones to the younger Muslims. Movies and music will cross borders. The U. S. Government should do nothing except help these goods and ideas cross borders.

I saw a recent news story about young Iranian girls who were getting tattoos, discreetly. Tattoos are forbidden in the Muslim religion. The point proves that each generation rebels against the previous generations in order to create their own identity. Young people compete with history. When they hear about the honor or suffering previous generations have gone through, the current generation cannot relate to that, therefore they want to create their own history and identity.

Young Iranian women should have powerful and independent females as role models such as; PepsiCo's CEO Indra K. Nooyi, Avon Products' CEO Andrea Jung, and Archer Daniels Midland's CEO Patricia Woertz. Muslim women would prefer to have fewer children if their culture permitted such practice. Show Muslim women how liberated they can be if they have the birth control pill. This change in a generation of Muslim women will began to shatter the support for Islam.

Man's desires always torment him so I try to control my desires instead of letting them be in control. I have no desire to be right in my advocacy of foreign policy. I simply hope the right policy prevails.

Update Feb 5, 2011- Women are playing a role in the Egyptian protests. One young woman who has become the face of the uprising is 26-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz. Approximately 2 weeks ago, Ms. Mahfouz posted a video online that soon went viral. In the video Ms. Mahfouz states, “As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.”

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