Radical Islam (not) in decline

Submitted by François Gravel (Canada), Sep 20, 2016 at 04:26

French intellectuals such as Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel have now been prophesizing the impending demise of jidahism for at least a quarter of a century. Dr. Pipes has made fun—with good reason, I would argue—of this "preposterous idea that militant Islam is in decline (...) a thesis that flies in the face of all reality" (http://www.danielpipes.org/991/jihad-the-trail-of-political-islam).

And yet, here is Dr. Pipes telling us with a straight face that radical Islam is in decline—this in the wake of the Minnesota, New York and New Jersey attacks perpetrated by Afghan- and Somali-born jihadists. Perhaps Dr. Pipes is becoming a little too mainstream for his own good.

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