Wright is Wrong again....Mullahs kill children.

comPosts Wright is wrong again.....imagines political space that includes Islamists in future Government coalitions....while Islamists in current Government coalitions execute children, especially girls.

Mullahs to Execute Three More Children
September 08, 2004
Radio Farda
radiofarda.com

Following the execution of Atefeh, a 16 year old girl in the northern city
of Neka in Iran, who was accused of having had an extramarital sexual
affair, the legal experts are now worried about the faith of three young
people who are condemned to death by the Islamic courts.

Under international pressure the Judiciary has now announced that they are
waiting for three young boys to reach the age of 18 before they are
executed. The authorities have not revealed what the boys are convicted
of.

Under Islamic Law children are exempt from judicial punishment but the
same legal system considers girls at the age of 10 and boys at 16 as
adults and punishable.


After Grief, The Fear We Won't Admit
By Robin Wright
Sunday, September 12, 2004; Page B01



Aside from the vital mission of tracking down bin Ladenists, military muscle is not always an effective instrument for moving forward. Nor are tepid diplomatic initiatives aimed at coaxing authoritarian governments into adopting change at a pace and in a manner that they control. There's another strategy that's gaining favor among Mideast experts: Bring Islamic movements and groups into the political process. Give Islamist parties new political space -- wide open space -- to absorb passions and sap anger.

That means accepting, even embracing, the idea that Islam is not the problem, but the way out of a political predicament that has been building quietly for decades. It means not only supporting nationalists, liberals and nascent democrats already on our side in the quest to transform the Middle East but also encouraging Islamists and their parties to participate. Basically, it means differentiating between Islamists and jihadists, and accepting anyone willing to work within a system to change it rather than work from outside to destroy it.

"It's hard to imagine political evolution in the next 20 years that does not include the Islamists," says Ellen Laipson, president of the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank that studies international security issues. "They have established legitimacy and a following and you won't make them disappear overnight by supporting the activities of a small elite of secular modernists. . . . You have to imagine a political space that has both."