Let's hope so. :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by ECAW (United Kingdom), Mar 7, 2015 at 03:54

Let's hope you're right. It's getting increasingly absurd for our politicians and media to keep telling us that ISIS is unIslamic.This article by Graeme Wood is an encouraging crack in the dam:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

But I think your comment about it being possible to believe that Islam's teachings are 100% right but still not worth dying for is unrealistic. That view is flatly contradicted in several places by Allah himself.

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2	respectful disagreement with Dr. Pipes [310 words]	Charles Martel	Mar 7, 2015 14:04	222172
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2	True [125 words]	ECAW	Mar 7, 2015 04:49	222164
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