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Submitted by sohaib zafar (Pakistan), Oct 22, 2008 at 00:38

Hi Daniel!

How do you hold that every Islamist is a militant but not a terrorist'

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Daniel Pipes replies:

I don't use the word militant; that said, I mean that every Islamist is an ideologue seeking the just society through application of Islamic law. Only some Islamists seek to achieve this via violence.