Reply #14: you are quite correct Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute - a far right [View All]

[Douglas Carpenter]

foreign neoconservative organization that supports military intervention and dominance in the Middle East through force.

http://www.aei.org/scholar/117

As far as Dr. Harris is concerned, I am relieved that he speaks about the dangerous side of the dominant wing of American fundamentalist-Protestant eschatology which practically encourages is followers to want to provoke war with the Arab and Islamic world for the purpose of bringing on the "Battle of Armageddon" to herald in the second coming of Christ.

My concern is that there are those who want to, for different reasons, provoke military confrontation and seek total dominance over the Arab and Islamic world. I fear the possibility that if the opportunity arises, this coalition of demagogues will utilize both the support of deeply misguided fundamentalist-Protestants and secular minded people who have been whooped up into an anti-Islamic frenzy. It is entirely plausible that both forces could be politically manipulated into an odd alliance that would support a dangerous military confrontation that would undoubtedly bring utter catastrophe on the Middle East, the United States and perhaps the whole world.

In the history of the world, no good has ever come out of demonizing a people. Nothing but evil can arise from any efforts - be they from fundamentalist-Christians or secularist idealist - from convincing the Western world that the world's 1.3 billion Muslims are an enemy.