Saudi mutaween<\/i><\/a> (which is indefensible of course) and the self-bloodlust inherent in the young suicide bombers of Hamas (hmm, that\u2019s hard to defend too). Of course, if every Muslim child was sent to certain doom, there wouldn\u2019t be 1.2 billion of us. But that isn\u2019t nearly as sexy as the Osama bin Laden wannabees that Goldberg makes them out to be. <\/p>\n<\/i><\/p>\n
Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n
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