Not so simple

Submitted by Anon (United States), Jan 27, 2016 at 01:54

Here's the problem Dr. Pipes. Even if we could magically turn all the 10-15% Islamists in the world into salt it won't be long before Islamists would form among the remaining 85% and most likely in the same or higher percentage. Its the scriptural connection that makes this so intractable. The reason for my analysis is that today the 10-15% Islamists are distributed uniformly everywhere - even among muslims born in the liberal, friendly west. We see Islamist acts among Australian muslims, Indonesian muslims, Danish muslims etc. Islamism is encoded into the DNA of Islam - we really need to confront this fact.

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