I was reading Ayaz Amir article on Dawn for he is great and intelligent journalist and secularist as myself. This article he wrote in Dawn and I urge you to read this article:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/ayaz/ayaz.htm
A sample of the article is below:
"Now if we take it as correct that American domination of the Islamic world is not a good thing and deserves to be resisted, it becomes hard for so-called secularists like myself to close their eyes to the uncomfortable fact that the only forces resisting this domination, often successfully, are those which, in some form or the other, draw their inspiration from Islam.
Savour then the irony of it. The “war on terror” was meant to fight and contain radical Islam. Instead, the Bush administration has turned out to be its biggest supporter, through its arrogance, lies and blind support of Israel giving radical Islam an impetus it could never have hoped to achieve on its own."
Now what to do to face this unpleasant reality? How to balance the fact that oppressors will be defeated and radical islam will not spread throughout the muslim world?