War is Miscommunication - Al Contrare Monfrare

Here's an interesting post on understanding the Muslim world - the War on terrorism is not the result of misunderstanding, rather, it's a result of coming to understand the people we are dealing with.

Here's the best parts:

"The facts, should we face them, hold an ugly truth. A pregnant Israeli mother and her four young daughters are slaughtered one-by-one at close range by Hamas terrorists, part of a group who later literally appear on video holding the minced bits of Israeli corpses hostage. (And have no doubt, those people are our enemy, too.) An American altruist is savagely slaughtered on camera by men shouting "Allahu Akhbar." And who, reading the narrative put forward in the Western Media emerges as the villain in these weeks? Why, Don Rumsfeld and George Bush of course.

The truth being screamed out at us on video by these people is ugly. It is difficult to face, and some people don't want us to face the whole truth because it doesn't fit their desired conclusions - because perhaps they couldn't control our reactions to the truth were we to really face it. But the terrorists are circumventing the press in their own way. They, also, are harnessing the power of the modern edge to communicate their message to us.

And this communication isn't bringing peace any closer. No, in fact it's showing us, if we have the guts to see what's before our eyes, that this may just be an enemy with whom there is no accommodation to be made."

The whole thing is worth reading.