Confusion there is

Submitted by Alain Jean-Mairet (Switzerland), Oct 27, 2013 at 00:29

It took anti-Nazi Germans to rebuild Germany and it will take anti-Islamist Muslims to rebuild Islam.
-- Daniel PIpes

This parallel is flawed. A State is NOT a Church. A nationality is NOT a religion. Being a German does not in itself support Nazism, whereas being an active Muslim does obligatorily support Islamism, even while struggling against its worst manifestations.

You may say that it will take anti-Islamist people -- Arabs, Iranians, Afghans and so on. Or would you say that it took anti-Nazi members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party to rebuild Germany?

There is something in the meaning of "Muslim" that prevents the reality of what you call "anti-Islamist". Even if those people claim that they are, even if they are honest in that claim, they still support the belief in the Koran and in a prophet who killed, tortured and enslaved with great success. They still support Islamism. And they always will.

The more Muslim, the more Islamism.

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