Amid the clamor, it is difficult to figure out what is actually going on.

Fareed Zakaria's weekly column.

People in the Muslim world travel to see the glitz in Dubai, not the madrassas in Tehran.

By and large, radical Islam is not winning the argument, which is why it is trying to win by force.

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How to open up and modernize the Muslim world is a long, hard and complex challenge. But surely one key is to be seen by these societies and peoples as partners and friends, not as bullies and enemies. That is one battle we are not yet winning.