Critiquing Islam and not Islamism!

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Apr 11, 2011 at 11:34

Mr. Pipes, you summarize : "Critiquing Islam, tastefully or distastefully done, is a Constitutional right. Indeed, done intelligently it is a civilizational imperative."

II am glad you said "critiquing Islam" and not Islamism which emanates from Islam. Do I see a change in your thinking because in the past you always seem to defer to Islam and lay all the blame to Islamism and Islamists. I don't see a difference between a Muslim and a Islamist because all Muslims are Islamists ready to propagate Islam by any means, therefore critiquing Islam is the right thing to do rather than going for Islamism!

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