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J U LY / A U G U S T 2 0 0 7 W W W. T I K K U N . O R G T I K K U N 11 support in the most intelligent and socially conscious ways that can be developed, in cooperation with local communities , and utilizing the talents and skills of the recipients as well. 3. Help us build an international moratorium in which everyone who opposes the war in Iraq stops working and instead dedicates that day to attending teach–ins, religious celebrations, and/or going door–to–door to educate people about the fundamental issues about the war and about the Strategy of Generosity . 4. Help us build “Iraq Summer 2008”—an NSP project to recruit people to go door–to–door in “red” (pro-war) Congressional districts (which are sometimes located in otherwise “blue” propeace states) to present our vision of how to end the war and what should follow it. 5. Insist that MoveOn and other voices of the anti–war movement voice the ideas of the NSP’s Spiritual Covenant with America, particularly our Strategy of Generosity and the details of our Global Marshall Plan. 6. Donate to the NSP to have our ad reprinted newspapers nationwide . Read and donate at www.tikkun.org/iraq peace. Meanwhile, the Dems will continue to fund wars, and then cry. When will they understand get that this is a losing strategy? n Y es, Norman Podhoretz and the neo-cons are still on the forefront of the struggle to convince Americans that they must not give up in Iraq because we face an enemyof“Islamo-fascism.”This,inPodhoretz’swordsin Commentary (June, 2007) is “yet another mutation of the totalitarian disease we defeated first in the shape of Nazism and fascism and then in the shape of Communism; it is globalinscope;itisbeingfoughtwithavarietyofweapons,notallof them military; and it is likely to go on for decades.” Podhoretz reminds us of this in his article “The Case for Bombing Iran,” which is presumably still a live issue in the White House where his son–in–law Elliot Abrams serves as the chief advisor on Middle Eastern affairs. But the neo-cons have a powerful new ally: the anti-religious zealots who have spent the past few years in a crusade against those who believe in God. Consider, for example, the words of Sam Harris, author of the best-selling The End of Faith. Even before his book became the darling of anti–religious fundamentalists on the secular left, Harris had become a champion of the anti–Islamic crowd. He wrote: “It is time we recognized—and obliged the Muslim world to recognize—that ‘Muslim extremism’ is not extreme among Muslims. Mainstream Islam itself represents an extremist rejection of intellectual honesty, gender equality, secular politics and genuine pluralism. The truth about Islam is as politically incorrect as it is terrifying: Islam is all fringe and no center. In Islam, we confront a civilization with an arrested history. It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the fourteenth century are pouring into our world.” In another article, Harris states: “It is time we admitted that we are not at war with ‘terrorism.’ We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us. Every American should read the Koran and discover the relentlessness with which non–Muslims are vilified in its pages… We must come to terms with the possibility that men who are every bit as zealous to die as the September 11 hijackers may one day get their hands on long-range nuclear weaponry… Our press should report on the terrifying state of discourse in the Arab press, exposing the degree to which it is a tissue of lies, conspiracy theories and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology...

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