The Huffington Post:
By Faheem Younus,
Who can decipher the mind of a terrorist? In the post 9/11 America, there is a dollar-spending, ink-spilling, competition between the government and the academia to answer this question.
The faith of the terrorist in the above question is typically implied while the magnitude of the problem — less than 0.1 percent of the world’s Muslims have committed acts of terror against the western world — is typically denied.
Which brings me to the consequential next question: How much effort has gone into decoding the minds of the 99.9 percent of, yes, Muslims?
Zilch. Nada. None.
So if you would like to know what the 99 percent of Muslims secretly believe in, man, do I have an absolutely great idea for you: perform ten deeds in ten days as the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan winds down. For Muslims — over 90 percent of whom observe fasting during the month of Ramadan according to a recent Pew poll — these ten deeds are prescribed for the whole month.
Ramadan is about Fasting, Charity, Good Deeds and Self Reformation
Each day, just act upon one deed. And forget about the rituals; this is not stealth evangelism. The idea is not to convert anyone to Islam but to convert a mindset based on media one-liners and sensational images. At the end of this “ten days, ten deeds” project, you would know exactly what is in the heart of an average Muslim.
So here we go: