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People who want to make this simply a war between the West and a monolithically evil Islam overlook the fact that \u2014 the brutal oppression of Christians and Yazidis and others notwithstanding \u2014 most of the victims of radical Islamist violence have been, and continue to be, Muslims. \u00a0One estimate that I\u2019ve recently seen puts the figure at 70%.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2015\/12\/saudi-arabia-forms-muslim-anti-terrorism-coalition-151215035914865.html \u00a0 Whether, practically speaking, this will prove to be effective remains to be seen. \u00a0But it is, to a substantial degree, their fight even more than it\u2019s ours. \u00a0 By the way: \u00a0When I was in Istanbul a few weeks back, the Paris massacres were fresh and on everybody\u2019s mind \u2014 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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