Islam is a political philosophy as well.

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Jun 24, 2012 at 14:15

Dear Dr Pipes,

No one of us should forget even for a moment that, whatever be Islam's spiritual merits and demerits, it is also an unmitigated political philosophy. In the corrupt and selfish arena of politics, Islam is another player like monarchies, dictatorships, communism, democracies, fascism, and others. The efforts to hide Islam the political system under the garb of a religion should be exposed every time and every place they are are found to occur and by everyone who sees them. Respect for religious sensibilities should not stop us from exposing the selfish political drives.

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