Learning to Live With Radical Islam

Fareed Zakaria's cover story in the Newsweek makes a useful distinction between "Islamists" and "terrorists" without failing to highlight the horror of Sharia law. But one must have to understand the history beyond this. Before making any reaction and comments we must understand, "What is Radical Islam"?

A few contradictions he makes in this article, as I think and I want to make further comment on this: “The veil is not the same as the suicide belt. We can better pursue our values if we recognize the local and cultural context, and appreciate that people want to find their own balance between freedom and order, liberty and
license.” From the article

Comment: One kills the person immediately and the other just takes years. Here he makes a distinction between the political and social problems of radical Islam. He would want a political solution, aid to those countries, but let them maintain status quo in the social arena. This does not solve the problem as it will create more Saudi Arabias which are linked to the world politically and economically, yet are the prime harbinger of Islamic terror.
The defensive mentality of Islamists when approached with their civil problems does not aid in the solution of the larger problems posed by their religion and its supporters to the remainder of the world.

Fareed’s solution of ignoring the Islamists as long as they don’t kill us would be a good solution if the Islamists were isolated geographically. But unfortunately Islamists form a sizable minority in many countries and they often want to be governed by their own religious laws. If I’ll talk about India here, then there is also a Muslim panel of law for Islamic community but it's not bigger then the supreme law, which is equal for all. Even in England, there seem too many Islamists who want “Sharia” to be enforced.
We know that Netherlands, Denmark and other European countries which have a sizable Muslim population are slowly facing this issue. It also doesn't go into how we convince lawmakers that slow processes rather than bombs may work better.