The Silence That Kills

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Author(s) Thomas Friedman
Source The New York Times
Date March 2, 2007
URL http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/opinion/02friedman.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26nQ3DTopQ252fOpinionQ252fEditorialsQ2520andQ2520OpQ252dEdQ252fOpQ252dEdQ252fColumnistsQ252fThomasQ2520LQ2520Friedman&OP=2e4bdfc7Q2FQ25uN@Q25ByqYYBQ25Q3DvvQ2FQ25vQ2AQ25vQ3DQ25Yi5T5YTQ25vQ3Dbq5N0jQ5ETQ22ZBjQ7E
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"But worst of all, Muslims, the very people whose future is being killed, are also mute. No surge can work in Iraq unless we have a “moral surge,” a counternihilism strategy that delegitimizes suicide bombers. The most important restraints are cultural, societal and religious. It takes a village — but the Arab-Muslim village today is largely silent. The best are indifferent or intimidated; the worst quietly applaud the Sunnis who kill Shiites"


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