Aman Ali, a BoingBoing guest blogger, is the co-author of 30 Mosques, a Ramadan adventure taking him to a different mosque in New York City every day for a month.
It sounds like an infomercial. I can already imagine the voice of Billy Mays (RIP) booming through my television set.
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I just got done reading Howard Clark’s new book “How You Can Kill Al-Qaeda (in Three Easy Steps). He’s an ex-Marine and former Homeland Security adviser who says the way to win the war on terrorism is to help empower the mainstream Muslim community, who in recent years has been overshadowed in the public spotlight by fringe Al-Qaeda extremists.
The whole idea of fighting terrorism with ideas and not weapons is definitely nothing new, but Clark’s populist tone and foreign policy street cred was a refreshing perspective to have in the discussion.
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