I was reading a thread at DU and found this insightful post concerning Prof. PipesOne thing that I'm particularly familiar with is that Pipes is always careful to make a distinction between Islam and militant Islam.
Here's a quote from the editor of Pakistan Today:
"He does not bash Muslims,” said Tashbih Sayyed, editor and publisher of Pakistan Today, based in Fontana, Calif. “What he attacks is a fascist interpretation of Islam. Daniel Pipes, to me, is the voice of reason. Only time will tell—and God forbid that time tells—what will happen if we ignore a voice like Daniel Pipes’.”
I could go into Dr. Pipes' academic and professional credentials (which are truly impressive) but I won't unless you want me to, since that's not the point. The point is that Daniel pipes is a decent and reasonable man who has been the focus of a sustained and focused smear campaign by the good folks at CAIR. He knows his subject (radical Islam and the Middle East) as well as just about anyone on earth and generally makes valid points.
You said:
"While a reasonable might surmise that not all Muslims are fundamentalists and not all Islamic funadamentalists are terrorists, Dr. Pipes argues otherwise:
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization."
In fact, you have misrepresented Dr. Pipes. Nowhere in the quote you put forth did he so much as suggest that "all Muslims are fundamentalists." To the contrary, as I have pointed out, Dr. Pipes has repeatedly argued just the opposite point:
"I write about the Middle East and Islam with an intent to help Americans understand the complexities of these subjects. Toward this end, I emphasize a distinction between Islam the religion and militant Islam the ideology. I respect the former but abominate the latter as a form of totalitarianism. And no matter what CAIR would have you believe, plenty of Muslims - both observant and not - agree with me."
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/984
Also, he did not say that all fundamentalist Muslims are terrorists any more than I would say that all Nazis were mass murderers. His point that all fundamentalist Muslims are part of a "murderous movement" is one that I would be happy to discuss with you.
So, you see, while I may occasionally cite a source that I may, upon reflection, regret using, that is not the case in this instance.