These diehard anti-Islamist concepts are biting us in the ass. Just as our government once integrated a great deal of Christian doctrine into its processes, it's normal for the Middle East to integrate their religious and cultural identity into their government. Moderate Islamism is no more dangerous than politically active Southern Baptists, and pretending that all Islamists are extremists, or that all extreme Islamists are agressively anti-Western is ridiculous. That concept is on par with saying that coffee and crack are both addictive stimulants, so coffee should be regulated the same way as crack. Turkey's new Islamist leaders are shockingly pro-Western, and many commentators have suggested that Turkey's way into the Core lies through them rather than the old, secular leadership. Our way forward should involve developing relationships with moderate Islamists until movements like Sulafi Islam can produce a Moslem John Locke.