I still remember the first time I heard - and blogged - of Daniel Pipes, I even remember calling him a fag. He's that conservative guy who believes that every middle eastern looking academic and student in the United States should be put on a watch list of sorts and even WWII style internment.
So, no doubt that he's fucked up in the head, but the guy is still a good source of information, much like lgf. The latest example of this is one of his recent articles sheds light on another very detailed one by David E. Kaplan about how the U.S. is spending millions to change it's relationships with Islam, by building Mosques and restoring ancient Korans. So I'll give this jackass (Pipes) for pointing to something worth reading.

You see after 9/11, the first thing that came to mind was that the United States needs an image makeover in much of the Muslim World. It needs to invest in the future of the uneducated masses of Asia and Africa, the hotbeds of modern Islamist extremism. There's a real big need to educate these people and bring them into the 21st century. To let them know the realities of the global village and how human beings are today more than ever reliant on each other. To tell them that hatred of a race, a country or a religion leads nobody nowhere. But rarely before reading this article have I read a mention of any such program. I guess the story is not that interesting for the media.

Before this, I didn't even know about the President's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, and it's Muslim World Outreach program. The article points to specific instances where the U.S. government is actively involved in at least 24 Muslim countries to counter it's negative image spread mostly by extremists and hardline scholars, where are revered as the best source for phylosophical and worldly opinion by a large percentage of the population there. Personally, I see nothing wrong with setting up and funding a pro-all-world mullah against a terrorist-funded one. You can't better at psyops than that. Read the article for more details, it's a good read.

And while we're at it, we can also develop a crash course for red-necks that brown is a skin color of human beings too and people can have an accent (except for those who're supposed to help you with technical matters over the phone).