(Daily Star-Lebanon) Khaled Duzdar - Last week's suicide attacks against innocent civilians in Amman shocked us all. There should be no excuse for neglecting and denying the dangerous reach of the carriers of a new and mad disease of violence. Serious actions should be undertaken to exterminate this spreading disease from our Muslim societies and from Islam itself. Muslims and Arabs should not only have better condemned the terrorist acts carried out everywhere around the world, but also should move to isolate the destructive, invented beliefs promoted by a group of insane people and carried out in the name of defending Islam. The writer is the Palestinian co-director of the strategic affairs unit at the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information in Jerusalem.
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