The enemy is ISLAM, there is no such thing as Islamism

Submitted by Ravi Shankar (Canada), Jun 19, 2008 at 17:51

"If you cannot name your enemy, how can you defeat it?"

You should take your own advice Mr. Pipes. I know why you chose to define our enemy as 'Islamism', its because you're clinging to the false assumption that there are 'radical' and 'moderate' muslims.

For the longest time, I was under that assumption also. The day I started calling the enemy by their real name I realized it has a profoundly different meaning than calling them "Radical Islam" or "Islamofascism" as I used to. Occasionally I'll still use it for those who are uninformed and to avoid getting flagged on politically correct message boards.

Once we recognize we're at war with the entire ideology-it makes everything clear, how even moderate muslims support their radicals and so forth. We are in a civilizational war against 7th century religious barbarians. They do not think nor see the world the way we do in the West.

Islam cannot be reformed, this ideology must be eradicated along with its radicals. Fair-minded muslims will understand and will convert to another religion or become secular. Whether they do or not what is important if our civilization is to survive another 1000 years without being Islamified is that we need to work together to eliminate this ideology, as we did with Nazism.

Great comments to the others here.

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