Has Dr. Pipes really identified the enemy?

Submitted by Steve Klein (United States), Jun 19, 2008 at 06:40

What if the enemy is Islam itself? Then it is Dr. Pipes and others that actually fear identifying the true enemy because this truth is too difficult to imagine, much less acknowledge. President Bush says the "terrorists" ("Islamists") are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. Is this the case? Perhaps what Daniel Pipes calls "Islamism" is authentic, historic Islam. Muslims that oppose the 'Islamists" are apostates and traitors to the faith. Could it be that the jihadists and those good Muslims that support violent jihad constitute authoritative Islam? Thus America and the west are at war with Islam; not "Islamism."

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