Totalitarian faith

Submitted by infidel (Finland), Oct 22, 2007 at 02:55

"As I listened, it hit me that the common enemy is not terrorism, which is a tactic, or Islam, which is a faith. It's radical Islam, which Pipes calls a totalitarian political ideology."

Now I don't quite understand. Taking a faith to task may be tricky, but it's unavoidable. It's the faith of Islam from which all the violence flows forth, all those 107 verses in Koran which exhort believers to behave violently towards kuffars. Worrying signs of the radicalization of Islam are evident, all over the world, for anybody to see. Of a reverse movement I haven't heard anything. It would take a skeptic or an agnostic to belittle the gravity of the Islamic faith in this context. After all, we are dealing here with the Adversary of Christianity. An unavoidable fact.

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