What about Islamic terrorists? :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Anon (United States), Sep 27, 2015 at 17:53

Professor Pipes shows once again that he is a profoundly deep scholar of the Middle East with this excellent and well researched article. I had a question though: why is it that Islamic terrorists of the Al Qaeda/OBL/ISIS kind not given in to this fatalism? Their actions seem more of the "God helps those who help themselves" category than fatalism.

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
1	Daniel Pipes is too optimistic about the possibility that a moderate Islam can evolve [755 words]	traeh	Oct 10, 2015 04:46	225548
	Israel should send troops to arrest Abbas for inciting violence. He is not above the law [396 words]	YJ Draiman	Oct 9, 2015 02:42	225525
	Theological or sociological? [101 words]	Jason P	Oct 3, 2015 08:04	225431
	Muslims are fatalist [76 words]	imdad Ali	Oct 2, 2015 05:17	225419
	What about Islamic terrorists? [60 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Anon	Sep 27, 2015 17:53	225380
	Allah,s wish [44 words]	ashok	Sep 26, 2015 03:35	225370
1	Islam and Israel [17 words]	PezDispenser	Sep 24, 2015 12:59	225350
	Islamic activism [77 words]	Vijay	Sep 22, 2015 10:07	225324
	A recommended article in the Times of India [139 words]	Prashant	Sep 20, 2015 15:22	225291
	Saying 'It was willed by God' does not make you a fatalist [62 words]	Prashant	Sep 19, 2015 00:38	225112
	Predestination is an idea. . . [22 words]	Elisha benAbuya	Sep 18, 2015 21:33	225111
	Fatalism and God's Will [34 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Michael E Katz	Sep 18, 2015 13:22	225104
1	الرافعات سقطت or The cranes crashed (fell) and 9/11 [87 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 18, 2015 12:40	225101
	al-Qada' wa al-Qadr is not everybodys' business [84 words]	Ibnu Abeehi	Oct 5, 2015 10:25	225101
1	Guiding the perplexed [243 words]	dhimmi no more	Oct 6, 2015 07:57	225101
	The Inescapable [197 words]	Pied Piper	Sep 18, 2015 02:42	225086
	Predestination in Christianity vs. Islam [594 words]	Michael S	Sep 19, 2015 00:42	225086
2	al-Qada' wa al-Qadr [102 words]	dhimmi no more	Sep 22, 2015 09:10	225086
3	SUBMIT, inshallah akhbar! [75 words]	Uncle Vladdi	Sep 18, 2015 01:26	225085
2	Islam is only the fatalistic idolatrous excuse of predetermined might-makes-right [1194 words]	Uncle Vladdi	Sep 18, 2015 01:13	225084
	Misinterpreted verse [44 words]	Dajjal	Sep 18, 2015 19:57	225084
	"Muslim fatalism" in Auschwitz [81 words]	Peter Suedfeld	Sep 17, 2015 20:21	225083
	possible explanation [115 words]	Vijay	Sep 20, 2015 13:03	225083
	Are Muslims and Westerners really different from each other? [1850 words]	Michael S	Sep 17, 2015 16:31	225082
2	Judeo-Christianity teaches self-reliant free-will and personal guilt, while islam only teaches alibi-excuses. [432 words]	Uncle Vladdi	Sep 18, 2015 17:43	225082
	different bible [245 words]	Michael S	Sep 22, 2015 17:37	225082
	Can't say [59 words]	MIchael S	Sep 24, 2015 05:17	225082
	Educational Update [110 words]	Uncle Vladdi	Sep 25, 2015 19:14	225082
	King Judah and Muslim v Westerner fatalistic attitudes [215 words]	JoeRu	Oct 1, 2015 18:09	225082
	Fascinating Info, but Message not entirely clear [177 words]	Ron Thompson	Sep 17, 2015 15:57	225081
	A very different example [108 words]	Vijay	Sep 17, 2015 14:07	225079
	They Are Not The First [171 words]	Barry Black	Sep 17, 2015 14:05	225078
	Man is a devil. [30 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	steven L	Sep 17, 2015 13:50	225077