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[UPDATE: Salon.com has an article covering similar ground. The evidence is clear...fundamentalist Islam is thriving and moderates are finding it harder and harder to survive]

As Bush tries to convince us that he is winning his Forever War Against Terror, it is increasingly clear that we are losing the REAL war against fundamentalist extremism throughout the world. As the Taliban and al-Qaeda thrive in Pakistan and Afghanistan, even in Iraq, where we are surging merrily ahead, secularism is dying out and fundamentalist extremism of BOTH Shi'ite and Sunni varieties, thrive.

I call this the Republican enabling of a growing fundamentalist Caliphate, a concept I introduced more than a year ago (leading to my being asked by BBC radio to be part of a phone in radio program) and has recently been more openly advocated even in Indonesia.

Recently on Current TV I saw further evidence that we are losing to extremists...even in Iraq where Bush assures us we are winning. Here is a highly disturbing segment from Current TV describing how secular Iraqis are being forced out as refugees, leaving Iraq to be taken over by extremists.