it is simply a restatement of positions occupied from the outset.
the problem is not shifting positions in the outside world: it is the structure of blindness on the part of the american tv viewing audience, those folk who get their information about islam from cnn or, worse (always worse) fox.
seriously--look into the matter of "fundamentalism" or "extremism" form the 1970s onward in anything liek sociological or historical terms (which do not sit well wtih commerical interests and the new that functions as entertainment between commercials) and you will see for yourself.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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