For some months now, al-Qaeda's leaders including its second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, have been calling on their followers to attack oil installations, saying that the revenues from Muslim oil go to the enemies of Islam.

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We would appoint a respected, pro-Western Muslim ally to run the oil industry in trust for the Muslim world.

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And, even more to Ms. Elliot's substantive analysis of the sharia threat, if Muslim America and American policymakers are afraid to even talk about sharia as a threat, at least as it exists in the Muslim world, how can we know that the Muslim Brotherhood, Gulf oil-financed Salafists, and Iranian-backed mosques and madrassas in this country won't soon make inroads by implanting the Muslim world's understanding of sharia?

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