Good opinion article. At least some Arabs are taking responsibility as to how ISIS erupted and not so quick at blaming others for this..
Arabs undergo overdue soul-searching
BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
New York Times News ServiceSeptember 25, 2014
There is a tension at the heart of President Barack Obama’s strategy to confront the Islamic State, and it explains a lot about why he has so much trouble articulating and implementing his strategy. Quite simply, it is the tension between two vital goals - promoting the “soul-searching” that the Islamic State’s emergence has triggered in the Arab-Muslim world and “searching and destroying” the extremist group in its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
Get used to it. This tension is not going away. Obama will have to lead through it.
The good news: The rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is triggering some long overdue, brutally honest, soul-searching by Arabs and Muslims about how such a large, murderous Sunni death cult could have emerged in their midst. Look at a few samples, starting with “The Barbarians Within Our Gates,” written in Politico last week by Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, the Arabic satellite channel.
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Arabs undergo overdue soul-searching Opinion Rock Hill Herald Online
Arabs undergo overdue soul-searching
BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
New York Times News ServiceSeptember 25, 2014
There is a tension at the heart of President Barack Obama’s strategy to confront the Islamic State, and it explains a lot about why he has so much trouble articulating and implementing his strategy. Quite simply, it is the tension between two vital goals - promoting the “soul-searching” that the Islamic State’s emergence has triggered in the Arab-Muslim world and “searching and destroying” the extremist group in its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
Get used to it. This tension is not going away. Obama will have to lead through it.
The good news: The rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is triggering some long overdue, brutally honest, soul-searching by Arabs and Muslims about how such a large, murderous Sunni death cult could have emerged in their midst. Look at a few samples, starting with “The Barbarians Within Our Gates,” written in Politico last week by Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, the Arabic satellite channel.
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Arabs undergo overdue soul-searching Opinion Rock Hill Herald Online
