[WaterDragon]

Pipes has been on top of the Muslim terrorist threat in this country, and vocal about it, from the very beginning. At first, I disagreed with him and thought he was too hard on the Muslims here, but as I watched C.A.I.R.'s reactions, I knew Pipes was right. He doesn't go off half-cocked. He knows what he's talking about.

David Pryce-Jones is another who an is extremely knowledgeable and un-PC writer about Arabs and Islam.

[patriciaruth]

Something we may want to watch unfold.

[joesnuffy]

CAIR aka The Wahhabi Lobby does not want the truth of who they are and who they really represent..
The fifth column of Arab Islam ...building their Mosques and Islamic center base camps and firebases in our midsts..
Of course our filthy politicans take their money..for each dollar the puppets add another string to their puppeteers control levers
Yet if Evangelical Christians tried to build one church or send one missionary to any Muslim country...oh how they scream

[Az Joe]

I studied writings by Pipes when I was in college in '89 for my Political Science degree. Good man.

[samtheman]

I disagree with Pipes on one point:

He claims that Islamic militants have hijacked Islam from the moderates.

I think that's wrong.

Islam is a militant religion, a religion of hate and war. The Koran teaches lethal evangelism (convert'em or kill'em). Preaches it. Demands it of its followers.

To the extent that there are "moderate" Moslems, they aren't true Moslems at all and can be seen, in fact, to be the hijackers of the religion.

Unfortunately, the Islamofacists are right about their religion. It is a religion of hate, violence, suppression of women, suppression of free thought, suppression of freedom, anti-American and anti-human.

It might make us more "tolerant" to ignore this fact.

It doesn't make us more safe.

[wardaddy]

I didn't know this....nice job W.

[bucephalus]

Stephen Schwartz who has a column in this month's Atlantic Monthly is pretty good too.

[DoctorMichael]

Pipes Bump.

[jaime1959]

I read his book "Militant Islam Reaches America". I'm glad he was nominated.

[Gritty]

The Senate should confirm him quickly.

Do I see a problem here?

The Liberals are going to scream about this one. Look for a full-scale Borking, coming to a Senate near you!

[expatguy]

Im not exactly sure how I feel about this myself.

I feel that Daniel Pipes misleads people into thinking there is a "good islam" and a "bad islam". This is simply not the case.

I was concerned about this a while back an emailed him, he simply replied saying that he did not agree with my conclusions and he gave no reasons. I tried in vain to explain to him that his conclusions could mislead people.

If you want to stump him you can ask him the reason why that what he calls "moderate Islam" sympathizes with "militant islam" and he wont be able to give a clear answer.

What I feel he fails to understand is that every muslim aspires to be a good muslim, a "pure muslim". Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban followed this path. They did not follow Islam to the extreme as westerners like to think or allege but they did follow Islam "by the book" and as such they will be viewed within the muslim society not as extremists but as purists.

You see the Taliban follows not the rule of man, but rather the rule of Allah. Ask any muslim on the planet which law should supersede the other and they will ALWAYS say the rule of Allah.

Being a "moderate" would be interpreted by the majority of muslims as being not pure or not a complete muslim and as such, no muslim aspires to be a moderate.

There is not a "good islam" and "bad islam" but there are good muslims and bad muslims and this is where Daniel Pipes makes his mistake.

[joyful1]

Talented writer, brave man. Speaking the truth is always a dangerous thing.