Muslim fundamentalists may be our best hope for fighting Islamic terrorism, says Tina Rosenberg in Foreign Policy. The idea is that those who adhere to a more extreme form of the religion may have the best chance of getting through to the "alienated" young men who might become terrorists — and stop them before they turn violent. That approach, which has been put to the test in London, has "evolved into one of Britain's most promising counterterrorism strategies — and perhaps its most controversial," says Rosenberg. Here, an excerpt on the STREET program run at Abdul Haqq Baker's London mosque:
Hard-line mosques like Brixton have often been the last stop before radicalism for people like [Zacarias] Moussaoui and [Richard] Reid. But mosques generally don't know what to do with such young men, especially if they stop short of openly advocating violence. The usual response is to expel them. But once they're out the door, they may be gone for good.
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