Call for execution of a British teacher in Sudan for naming a student teddy bear Muhammad is jusr one more indication of intolerence of Muslims. History tells us they live to convert or kill infidels. We need to be realistic about it, and deal with our problems accordingly.
It is not surprising that Sudanese Muslims want to kill a British teacher in Sudan for naming a student teddy bear Muhammad. Throughout the history, whenever Muslims had power, or when they could get away with it, they have never tolerated any other religious beliefs. Actually, far from tolerating, they have always wanted to convert or kill infidels they got their hands on. And, no matter what the apologists for Muslim behavior say, most Muslims either support the treatment of others by their brethren, or don’t care enough about others to protest it. They haven't changed a bit in last fourteen hundred years.
The biggest proof of the intolerance of majority of Muslims, not only in Sudan, but in the world, is absence of dissent either in public or private discussions. I happen to know many Muslims, and none of them ever comes out and says how outrageous the Muslim terrorism, violence, and actions are. Even when you find a lone moderate in the media, he excuses killing of many innocent people by pointing some personal action of an infidel (e. g. offensive cartoons.) Consider all the countries run on the basis of Koran, and you find negligence of every human right.
It is unfortunate that many liberals do not see any faults with Muslim regimes. They want to accept Muslim beliefs and traditions, but ignore terrorism and genocides carried out just because of difference of opinion.
Of course, the way to fight terrorism is not to attack every country that may support Islamists. It is neither effective, nor in our (US) best interest. The cost of war in lives, material, and psychology of the nation is too high. We have failed in Iraq not because we wanted to remove Saddam, but for our desire to be benevolent. You can’t kill thousands of people (not just a bad guy) and say we are here to help you.
The answer to Muslim intolerance is to be very tough when and where necessary. Conduct covert operations and surgical strikes to destroy terrorist apparatus. We are not going to change majority of Muslims, so just handle them with a cost effective force, without trying to prove we are better, and they should be like us. We know we are. The basis of Muslim religion is intolerance. So by definition any good Muslim will have no objection to convert or kill an infidel. Us, infidels, should just protect ourselves, and leave them alone, to kill each other, if they desire.