On the subject of windbags, Daniel Pipes crows about Tariq Ramadan giving up his professorship at Notre Dame University, after the US revoked his visa for reasons unknown (no doubt, behind-the-scenes pressure). Even more revealing is the last paragraph:
That said, it is not a perfect victory, for it depended on Ramadan's connections to terrorism; in the future, I hope that being an Islamist will in of itself â without necessarily having ties to violence â be grounds for keeping aliens out of the United States, much as being a communist was grounds for exclusion in an earlier era. (December 14, 2004)
So, merely having opinions (which, I suspect, all Muslims have) which offend sections of the majority community is enough to keep you out, not actually fighting for them, or being willing to.
I have often read a claim that only about 10% of Muslims are 'Islamists' - what is an 'Islamist'. Previously I had taken 'Islamist' to mean 'pro-Sharia' which I expect would be far more than 10% of the Muslim population. Was it more likely that the author was referring to supporters of radical anti-western ideology?
For a supporter of zionist terrorism like Pipes, a good Muslim is a dead one.
His dad Richard Pipes was a "sovietologist" who spent his entire adult life trying to get the US to get in a war with the USSR. Extremism seems to run this family.
What do you mean DrMaxtor? Sure I can see why many Muslims are offended by Pipes, but he's hardly in the same category as the LGF slimeballs!