Posted by Dan Ewert : 3/19/2003 03:51:00 PM (Archive Link)
Given the previous post, one of my concerns about post-Saddam Iraq is fundamentalist Islam. Right now, Islam isn’t terribly extreme in Iraq since the government has such strict control of all activities and extremist groups would be a threat to Hussein’s rule. With Hussein out of the picture, though, I imagine that religious groups in next-door Saudi Arabia will take the opportunity to move in and start preaching their own brand of Islam. If that happens, I fear we will have only traded one threat for another.