Keep up the good fight! :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Michael Clark (United States), Feb 7, 2003 at 14:06

Daniel,

I just read your response to letters that were written to you about your book, "Jihad and the Professors." Well done. Truth is hard to come by in this culture of "political correctness" and smoke and mirrors in the media. Many want to be thought of as followers of the truth, but few truly hope the they will catch it. As Soren Kierkegaard spoke so well, "...the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth."...
There is no such thing as a "holy war." War is hell...
Your friend,

Michael Clark
Coeur d' Alene, ID

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militant Islam [25 words]	Lon Bevill	Jan 23, 2004 19:30	13512
Ignorance [79 words]	Daeng Tinro	Dec 3, 2003 02:43	12426
Beauty (and evil) are often in the eyes of the beholder [251 words]	Gary Newman	Jul 30, 2003 05:29	10320
Perhaps the problem is with weak news reporting, then [723 words]	Terri Wonder	Jul 13, 2003 19:10	9991
Hatred vs. tolerance [154 words]	pdc5210`	May 19, 2003 05:34	9122
Welcome response [189 words]	Carol Thorndyke	Feb 13, 2003 20:42	6626
Israel [95 words]	Gary Loftus	Feb 13, 2003 14:05	6617
Jihad is warfare [116 words]	Chuck	Feb 12, 2003 00:02	6577
Way truth and life modified? [155 words]	A. J. Nolte	Feb 7, 2003 17:19	6490
Keep up the good fight! [117 words]	Michael Clark	Feb 7, 2003 14:06	6487
Islamic revisionist theories [164 words]	hari iyer	Feb 7, 2003 10:56	6482
Disinformation yet again from the defenders of Islam [119 words]	J.Shearer	Feb 7, 2003 08:58	6480
Jihad is not Always a Peaceful Exercise [274 words]	S.F.Gohara, M.D.	Feb 7, 2003 07:44	6477
the most important lesson of all... [78 words]	Tammy Erann-Soussan	Feb 7, 2003 04:13	6476
Jihad on September 11 [109 words]	Arlinda DeAngelis	Feb 7, 2003 00:41	6475
What does this tell us about the press? [103 words]	Irvin J. Farber	Feb 6, 2003 21:26	6472
Thank you and keep up the good work [44 words]	Oleg Chernyak	Feb 6, 2003 18:08	6466
How Soviet agitprop methods are used by Islamic extremists [272 words]	Ken Besig	Feb 6, 2003 14:52	6461
Kudos [5 words]	Bob Stern	Feb 6, 2003 13:27	6458
The fairness of Dan Pipes [92 words]	Dave Jaycox	Feb 6, 2003 10:50	6451
Jihad and conscience [246 words]	Jiri Severa	Feb 6, 2003 10:32	6450
You're a good man, Charlie Brown [226 words]	Rick Moorefield	Feb 6, 2003 10:04	6449
The Hajj [67 words]	Yosef Stern	Feb 6, 2003 10:02	6448
Looks like profs running for cover. [78 words]	dennisw-usa	Feb 6, 2003 08:45	6447
Scholarship [45 words]	Dixon Porter	Feb 6, 2003 08:00	6446
Re: Jihad and the professors [21 words]	Stuart Dew	Feb 6, 2003 07:52	6444