Understanding the difference is a must.

Submitted by Norma Fares (Lebanon), Apr 20, 2010 at 22:19

If we believe that Religion is about a Human Discipline -- a Discipline for Goodness --Religion becomes an asset. It would become an unfortunate powerful tool able to create then widen the gap between peoples and Humanity.

Good people are simply the people who are able to live and let others live too. Moreover, good people are the people who are able to live by letting other good peoples live too.

I think the US leadership whether Republican (Bush) or Democrat (Obama) must worry about the Islamist dimension that is threatening the core essence of America's spirit. "A Madrasa grows in Brooklyn", one of Dr. Pipes 2007 articles tackled that dangerous dimension founding its roots at some formed Arabic language schools under "Islamist" roof in US. http://www.danielpipes.org/4441/a-madrasa-grows-in-brooklyn

The current government is it able to understand what Islamism is about? Is it capable to calculate its forthcoming impact on America, the land of dream, if neglected? The US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton's signature order enabling the re-entry of professors Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University in England to the US again does not seem promising (ref. AP Jan. 10, 2010): http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/12/tariq-ramadan-gives-up-then-tries-again

Thank you Dr. Pipes for your article!

Norma

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