Is islamism 2.0 a real problem ?

Submitted by Lars Nielsen (Denmark), Nov 24, 2009 at 19:55

Mr. Pipes in his article brilliantly explains the dangers of islamism 2.0 defining it as islamists trying to change society into obeying shariah by lawful means. However, if islamists really want to stick to lawfull means, they are in no way different from liberals, neoconservatives, zionist lobbyists or other people trying to change society in their direction by lawful means, so what is the problem ?

As I see it, the problem is islamism 1.5, which use both legal and illegal methods to reach its goals, and islamism 1.75, which uses legal means to reach power, but illegal means to keep it. And by the way, mr. Pipes is mistaken, when he writes that communists and nazis have no communism 2.0 or nazism 2.0. In Russia, they have a communist party working within the law, and in Germany, they have had several cryptonazistic parties, which have never been caught using illegal tactics to gain power.

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