[M203M4]

Kevin Potvin is a Green Party candidate in Vancouver, Canada with ties to the NDP. His email is kpotvin@republic-news.org. Drop him a line.

[wastedyears]

The line has been drawn.

[Russ]

I can’t drop him a line. I wouldn’t know where to begin. I’m sitting here speechless after reading this frightening, naive drivel. It’s people like this who spell doom for Western civilization...

[steve8714]

This is the most honest “progressive” I ever heard of. He writes what the rest merely think.

[Moose4]

Is this the same tool who was quoted as saying he shouted “Beautiful!” when the second tower of the WTC came down on 9/11?

Well, if he’s so enamored with them, let’s hope Canada boots his ass clear to the Sunni Triangle, or Iran (depending on whether Sunni or Shi’a is his poison), and let him see how long he lasts as a dhimmi among his beloved Islamists.

}:-)4

[AlaskaErik]

But just like all those, it turns out today’s Islamist militants also have concrete, real-world and local aims, and because of that, things are negotiable—a fact our leaders would rather not admit because those negotiations require our leadership to give up items of importance to their main corporate backers—amongst them, sovereign control over oil resources.

Their chief aim being a world where islam is the only religion and our only options being...submit or die. That has been their primary objective since the beginning and it remains so today. And anyone who thinks that is negotiable is drinking the kool aid.

[P-40]

How is it, then, that a bunch of white non-Islamic men working in London and New York can come to this definition of the Islamist movement while the bulk of reliable analysis emanating from societies in which Islamism has taken root report almost an entirely opposite picture?

What a loon! The Islamists are quite vocal in their desires, namely, they want states ruled by their strict interpretation of Islamic law. As to this opposite picture...I have seen no evidence that there is one.

[Clock King]

This is not liberal or even Leftist. This is the face of pure evil. He no less than a Holocaust Denier.

[Hugin]

As such, the terrorists cannot be negotiated with, reasoned with, or compelled to behave. They wish to die, apparently. It’s a scary and compelling picture, except I’ve seen no evidence for it in any books I have read.

And what books on Islamic ideology has he read? Nothing on the history of Islam it seems. Certainly none of the books by refugees from Islamic persecution. Not the statements by Osama, Zawahiri, Zarqawi, etc. either. Nor even the Koran it seems. But he has probably read all of Noam Chompsky's books, which makes him an expret.

[Luna]

What source is Buruma drawing on to make these extravagant conclusions? I have been paying attention to this issue as well, and I have seen nothing that would lead me to make similar statements.

Perfect example of someone with eyes who will not see. This guy is an honorary member of the Stuck on Stupid Club.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Sheesh.

(Great homepage M203M4)

[BuffaloJack]

We can only hope that these slime mechants share the fate of the islamicists, .i.e., to become worm food in the compost pile.

[telebob]

Potvin can be the first one in the oven.

He can take my place...

[Robert DeLong]

Kevin Potvin

Independent city-council candidate (running on the Green Party ticket)

Is there any wonder why this stupid looking person is actually stupid? Sometimes looks don't lie.

[Jaysun]

I don’t know how this guy managed to chew through the leather straps, but he should be re-detained immediately.

[jakewashere]

My God, I think I actually lost points off my I.Q. reading that drivel.

Do these people really think they won’t be the first against the wall?

[jordan8]

Red roots, green shoots.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

In fact, if I am not mistaken, much of what fueled our massive protests against globalization are the very same things that are fueling their fights against what appears to me to be the very same opponent: our governments working in thrall to our biggest corporations to blindly destroy the foundations of a nurturing, cohesive, and purposeful society.

This kind of willful blindness is always amazing. If this gentleman really believes that Islamists share his aims and purposes, he's going to be in for a big surprise when he finds out that what they really object to are secular, open societies that allow people like him to flourish and spout his nonsense.

[AZLiberty]

We share common cause with the Islamist terrorists

Yes, they both want to take us back the the 6th Century.

[jackibutterfly]

"Islamists have no intention of converting anyone in Europe or North America to their faith...."

Of course not, they just want to KILL us all!

[jackibutterfly]

"....at least, there is not one scrap of evidence of any Imam ever suggesting such a radical evangelical program. "

Oh, no???? Have you EVER seen those videos of the imans and all those terrorists in IRAN screaming, "Death to America, Death to Israel???" I've seen them over and over, and you think YOU have the "authority" to preach to us about Islam? Man, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BUTT!