'JIHAD': Unmasking America's new enemy
Explosive special issue targets radical Islamic threat
"To kill Americans and their allies, civilians,
and military is an individual duty for every
Muslim who can do it in any country in
which it is possible to do it." -- Osama bin
Laden, Feb. 23, 1998
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Not so. While President Bush in his
historic Sept. 20 speech "dismissed
al-Qaida's version of Islam as a
repudiated 'fringe form of Islamic
extremism,'" explains Mideast expert
Daniel Pipes, "Muslims on the streets of
many places – Pakistan and Gaza in
particular – are fervently rallying to the
defense of al-Qaida's vision of Islam.
Likewise, the president's calling the
terrorists 'traitors to their own faith,
trying, in effect, to hijack Islam' implies
that other Muslims see them as
apostates, which is simply wrong.
Al-Qaida enjoys wide popularity …"
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In stark contrast, militant Islamism is
one of the fastest-growing movements in
the world today. Like Communism and
Nazism, Islamism is a brutal, coercive
utopian movement – a politicized and
virulent interpretation and
implementation of Islam -- bent on
nothing less than total world
domination.
In fact, best estimates are that 10-15
percent of Muslims worldwide are of
the militant Islamist strain. That means
well over 100 million human beings are,
to a greater or lesser degree, caught up
with what amounts to the world's most
dangerous cult. |
