Cause of war :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Joe Six-Pack (United States), Dec 26, 2009 at 10:27

Abu Nudnik put his finger on one of the issues at the base cause of the war: Hizballah is NOT a government with ANY sovereignty. Yet it is acting like a nation-state. It has initiated acts of war.

This is a common problem throughout the Islamic world. Islam is NOT a nation-state. The fact that many individuals and groups are acting on Islam's perceived sovereignty is a basic cause of much of the violence. This concept will have to end before the violence and warfare can be ended.

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2	Struggling to wake up [91 words]	Ole Burde	Jan 3, 2010 16:19	166788
	a crazy script [80 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Jan 8, 2010 07:58	166788
	Common sense and Uncommon questions [303 words]	Jay1	Jan 3, 2010 12:05	166774
	Add me to those!! [182 words]	Coptic Martyr	Jan 2, 2010 22:03	166750
	Common Sense in the Middle East? [340 words]	M. Tovey	Dec 28, 2009 14:29	166380
	Yeah...let Israel and the USA do egypts and Saudi's DIRTY work for them! [30 words]	Tevya R	Dec 27, 2009 12:04	166333
1	numbers in perspective, iran obivously a controversial topic [144 words]	myth	Dec 25, 2009 18:58	166276
	To Prof Pipes: My thought is Iranians (Persians) are not Arab [684 words]	Lady	Dec 25, 2009 09:14	166263
	Key Point to Note, Dr. Pipes. [452 words]	Aymenn Jawad	Dec 25, 2009 04:20	166251
	Christian Arabs and Israel [468 words]	dhimmi no more	Dec 30, 2009 11:47	166251
	Slight correction [9 words]	dhimmi no more	Dec 31, 2009 07:30	166251
	to "dhimmi no more", about Christians Arabs' animosity towards Israelis: [418 words]	Mot'ke	Jan 4, 2010 00:24	166251
	Israel and the Christian Arabs [726 words]	dhimmi no more	Jan 6, 2010 08:18	166251
1	a nuclear islamic iran is scary to most people in the area ! ...09.dec [262 words]	Phil Greend	Dec 24, 2009 20:36	166232
	common sense in egypt and saudi arabi [111 words]	mo	Dec 24, 2009 14:47	166225
	Common Sense in Saudi Arabia and Egypt----Americans fighting their wars [117 words]	Michael	Dec 24, 2009 10:08	166220
	A Glimmer of Hope [127 words]	Rebecca Moulds	Dec 24, 2009 08:31	166215
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	Interpretation too Benign? [333 words]	Ron Thompson	Dec 23, 2009 12:25	166184
	Re Ron: the "no" to Israel and the refugee question [74 words]	myth	Dec 25, 2009 19:08	166184
	Excellent analysis of these polling results, with 2 exceptions [165 words]	Joseph Klein	Dec 23, 2009 11:42	166183
	Contrived article. [72 words]	Richard Ong	Dec 23, 2009 11:19	166181
	Interesting Dichotomy of Opinion [128 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Bryan Taplits	Dec 23, 2009 11:14	166180
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	Re. To Your Response To My Comment on DanielPipes.org [17 words]	Bryan Taplits	Dec 29, 2009 11:39	166180
	It doesn't encourage me much [83 words]	Abu Nudnik	Dec 23, 2009 11:02	166179
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	Cause of war [45 words]	Abu Nudnik	Dec 29, 2009 12:24	166179