I’ve been spending a lot of time researching whether we should be paranoid about Muslims, or whether they really are out to get us. This article in the WSJ online edition (courtesy of Powerline) pretty much summarizes and confirms a lot of what I have read elsewhere. There are, however, glimmers of hope – in a separate post at Powerline, John Hinderaker quotes (with a link to a video) Iraqi politician Iyad Jamal Al-Din as asking: “How come Israel has developed a democratic regime…whereas the Arabs have not developed democratic regimes, using the existence of Israel as a pretext? How come Israel is not using the Arabs as a pretext for delaying its economic development, its free economy, and its free press?” How come indeed.