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How is Bulding Moderate Muslim Networks ? CHEPTER -10 Strategic and Institutional Steps The first step is for the U.S. government and its allies to make a clear decision to build moderate networks and to create an explicit link between network-building activities and overall U.S. strategy and programs. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to create an institutional structure within the U.S. government to guide, support, oversee, and continuously monitor the effort. Within the framework of this structure, the U.S. government must build up the necessary expertise and capacity to execute the strategy, which includes 1-An ever-evolving and ever-sharpening set of criteria that distinguishes true moderates from opportunists and from extremists camouflaged as moderates, and liberal secularists from authoritarian secularists. The U.S. government needs to have the ability to make situational decisions to knowingly and for tactical reasons (i.e., not out of ignorance, or without due and careful consideration) support individuals outside of that range under specific circumstances. 2-An international database of partners (individuals, groups, organizations, institutions, parties, etc.). 3-Mechanisms for monitoring and refining programs, projects, and decisions. These should include a feedback loop to allow for inputs and corrections from those partners who have been found to be most trustworthy. The network-building effort could initially focus on a core group of reliable partners whose ideological orientation is known, and work outward from there (i.e., following the methodology of underground organizations). Our approach calls for a few fundamental changes to the current, symmetric strategy of engagement with the Muslim world. The current approach identifies the problem area as the Middle East and structures its programs accordingly. That area is much too large, too diverse, too opaque, and too much in the grip of immoderate sectors to allow for much traction (as reflected in the experience of MEPI). It can absorb very large amounts of resources with little or no impact .Instead, the United States should pursue a new policy that is asymmetric and selective. As in the Cold War, U.S. efforts should avoid the opponent’s center of gravity and instead concentrate on the partners, programs, and regions where U.S. support has the greatest likelihood of making an impact in the war of ideas. With regard to partners, it will be important to identify the social sectors that would constitute the building blocks of the proposed networks. Priority should be given to groups and individuals that meet the criteria that we have identified for appropriate partners and that fall within these sectors: 1-Liberal and secular Muslim academics and intellectuals 2-Young moderate religious scholars 3-Community activists 4-Women’s groups engaged in gender equality campaigns 5-Moderate journalists and writers. http://www.rand.org/news/press.07/03.26.... http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG57... QUESTION: PM ERDOĞAN IS TRUE MODERATE ? http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG574/

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1. I don't think that building or guiding a moderate networks be a good idea for another government to establish in any Muslim countries.( It will be very dangerous cause it sounds like undermining the authority of that country by stablishing network of people that you can trust, or trying to stablish a puppet regime. (not what we mean, but that's what others assumes).Underground activities sometimes create friction when your goals ,programs, activities and other ideas are not approved or agreed by both sides.

   Basically, that is the reason why embassies or consulates are shared between two countries to share input, activities, needs and any issues affecting between two countries...

   As we all know, undermining the authority of another government cause us a lot of problem, specially if such program is misunderstood. It is a good idea, but inorder for that idea to work, it has to be agreed by both government. I hope I answered your question right...