Liberals and Jihadism

My husband and I were reading today's Wall Street Journal this morning, and he pointed my attention to a review of Peter Beinart's book, "The Good Fight", by Fred Siegel ("A Direction for Democrats" on W5, for those with hard copy that might want to look). I quote here from the last few paragraphs:

Today's jihadism is the expression of an imperialist imperative that is part of Islam itself, reaching back more than a millennium. It is not a manifestation of poor living conditions.

The reality is that there are no good choices when a major world religion appropriates whole countries or peoples on behalf of a radical, "holy" agenda...

- Fred Siegel, review of The Good Fight, by Peter Beinart, The Wall Street Journal, 26 May 2006, 5(W).

I felt that this particular snippet echoed what I was trying to express in my previous post.