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Thanks for that. When I sayIslam IS radicalism, I meant that trueIslam as preached by the prophet when he moved to Mecca IS highly violent. you can counter that by pulling out tracts from the OT. However, the OT in those tracts treats them as history -- the Israelites were told to DO that (past tense), we are not told to DO those acts (present tense).

InIslam, people are told to DO them (present and past tense combined), the injunctions to not make friends with infidels and to attack them are continuous tense and so a uslim doing such acts would think of himself as doing good. That is the difference. You cannot de-radicalise slam without destroyign it.