“The partisans of war claim that Islam is evil, it preaches terror and hatred, and it must be destroyed before it destroys us. It is a tribute to the moral clarity of so many in the West that they are not buying into this Manichean duality that apportions all virtue to one’s own tribe and all evil to one’s adversary.”

M. Shahid Alam in Counterpunch, 28 February 2003