Slightly Different Definition

Submitted by Mark W. Tesar (United States), Nov 19, 2002 at 10:44

I must compliment you on a very good article, as I find them all to be. However, I do disagree with your definition of "militant Islam" and not identifying it as not true Islam.

My reading and research into this area shows that the terrorists are the true believers and followers of Muhammed, the Qur'an, and the Hadith. By estimates that I am aware of, they make up 10% of the worldwide Muslim population (about 120,000,000).

The "peaceful" Muslims, the other 90% of the Islamic population, are not a threat and thank God for that, but as far as the teachings of Islam are concerned they are the apostates. They can be likened to the "Christmas and Easter Christians", who are a majority of those claiming to be Christians, however, they only attend church services twice a year. It's a cultrual thing and not a truly held faith.

This dichtomy of Islam, or politically correct view of Islam, peaceful vs militant, is what is causing confusion in our dealing with terrorism and what is true Islam. We are not only in a war against terrorism. We are also in a war against Islam because Islam has declared war (jihad) on the West and was declared by Muhammed in the seventh century. That's not politically correct, but my hope is that we will wake up and not let political correctness put us off guard because the result will be a United States that is an Islamic nation with Islamic law, then we will know what true Islam is and then there will be a real war to fight.

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