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Not Islam but Political Islam?

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Submitted by Hassan Radwan (United Kingdom), Feb 22, 2007 at 08:52

I read recently on a blog that you believe that it is 'not Islam the religion which had to be resisted, but political Islam... a totalitarian ideology, which is anti modern, misanthropic, misogynist, anti semitic and radically utopian." But isn't that Islam itself?

Hassan.

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I think not. See "Bibliography – My Writings on Moderate Islam" for some reasons why not.

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