Got a trackback and email from an interesting blog post. Over at ‘Eteraz’, blogger Ali Eteraz is asking who in the West liberal Muslims should ally with…

Should American-Muslims like me just become Democrats? How does being a Democrat jive with the things I am most active and capable in: 1) exposing Muslim extremists, 2) not being in bed with Muslim tyrants, 3) engaging the Muslim world with the underlying assumption that Enlightenment thinking whether through intellectual smuggling or through blatant polemic needs to be made part of the Muslim discourse…

Go read the rest. He points out the problems that someone like him – a liberal Muslim – faces in picking sides in the current political puzzle.

I’d pay attention to what he says; I’ll bet there are more people like him, and that when we win them all over we’ll be doing a whole lot better.