More than islamism
Reader comment on item: Interview with Dr. Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Ed (Israel), Oct 30, 2007 at 12:34

Your idea that islamism is an "intense" form of islamist belief is most sensible, but I think incomplete. The hatred of non-Muslims, especially Jews, comes out of humiiation in the battle for civilization with "others". That pervades and corrupts the idea that islamism is simply intense.

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