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The American Interest
Unprecedented intellectual ferment in the Muslim world is likely to have a happier ending than many Westerners suppose.
What do Muslims think? Do most Muslims reject the radical fundamentalist interpretation of their faith peddled by Osama bin Laden and his associates, or do they increasingly embrace it? As simple and even empirical as the question is, Western observers do not agree on the answer. Several efforts by Western polling organizations to answer this and related questions have clarified little and raised serious arguments over the reliability of their methodologies.
Most do agree, however, that the question is important, for the answer ought to tell us how to fashion the political aspects of the global War on Terror the struggle for “hearts and minds”, as it is commonly and more softly called. If most of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims oppose radical views, then U.S. (and