See, Hear, Speak No Evil (or Fact)

Submitted by Tom Pembroke (Saudi Arabia), Nov 21, 2002 at 12:38

I agree with Guy Viti that the distincton between Islam and Islamists is faulty. I'd go further. I'd say it's non-existent. The proof for this is simply irrefutable...and prodigious.

Take a look at the following URL. It links with the ARAB NEWS, the most widespread English language newspaper in Saudi Arabia....just a couple of days old:

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=20464&ArY=2002&ArM=11&ArD=18

Draw your own conclusions. And this kind of thing occurs on a daily and usually covert fashion.

Most western commentators on Islam fail to see what it really is: it may be a religion, but that's only a secondary manifestation of a larger ideology. Our refusal to recognize this fact is simply prolonging an eventual day of reckoning.

These guys are not going to give up. The West, particularly the US, simply has no conception what it's up against. Dr. Pipes is one of the few who recognizes this fact, although he too states there is a distinction between Islamists and the good guys...

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