Jihad in Reality vs. Jihad of Peaceminded Muslims

Submitted by Robert L. Blumenblatt (United States), Jan 14, 2007 at 12:05

It's impressive that Daniel Pipes has the guts to say it like it is. There are, of course, many millions of wonderful peaceloving and kind brothers and sisters throught the world who believe that there's No god but God.

Hovever, we in the West are affected by the extreme active minority who are accurately described as terrorists. And it is their meaning of Jihad which has an impact on us. So thank you, Daniel Pipes, for calling a spade a spade, or should I say if it looks like a duck and smells like a duck, the it is a duck.

Perhaps there is hope - I'm read the book by the yound Muslim, Reza Aslan, who claims that Muslims all over the world are going through an identity upheaval. He also points out that Muslims are the greatest victims of these Jihads - as in the Muslim neighborhood in London.
But also, the Shia and Sunnis in Iraq are killing each other in the name of Jihad - while, I might add, as usual, blames the Jews and their alleged American agents.

Best wishes, Dear Daniel Pipes -... !

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