A VALIANT FEW—MOSTLY RESIDENT OUTSIDE
HAVE TRIED TO DRAW LINES TO DEFINE DIFFERENCES
● HERE IS ONE SUCH ATTEMPT FROM QANTA A. AHMED CARRIED IN NEWSDAY January 16, 2015 “Islamism choking freedom everywhere”
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“Islamists seek war on secular democracy. From Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 1989 Valentine's Day Fatwa on Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" to the stabbing of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh in 2004 to the 2006 protests of Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad to Charlie Hebdo today, freedom of speech has been collapsing under Islamist assault across continents. The time to set aside our disbelief has arrived. It is time to believe. Islamism is global. And for liberal secular democracies, Islamism is very much here”..…
I and many other Muslims understand that "jihad of the sword," though mentioned in the Quran, holds no place in our modern world, or in our modern Islam. But distorting jihad is far from the only deception Islamists achieve.... Islamists pursue their caliphate through barbaric conflicts evolving jihad from Islam into terrorist jihadism. ”