5 Feet of Fury

Salim Mansur: ignoring Muslim-on-Muslim violence undercuts US interests (video)

Via RightSideNews (which also has the video interview):

The major threats to Muslims around the world don’t stem from U.S. or Israeli military actions or civil- liberties violations by Western governments in countering the jihadist threat. Instead, Salim Mansur, a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, identifies Muslim-on-Muslim violence as the cause of more death and destruction than anything else. (…)

Like his anti-Islamist counterparts in the United States, Mansur is waging a fierce intellectual struggle against established Islamist organizations claiming to speak for the country’s Muslims. A prolific writer on subjects including Islamic history, interfaith relations and international politics — he has a column in the Toronto Sun and has written about Muslims in America. He has traveled widely in the Muslim world and has experienced such violence firsthand. As a teenager, he narrowly missed becoming a victim himself.