[1bigdictator]

< "Are the political efforts of these Muslim groups similar to, say, Christian conservatives?"

The very fact that an American journalist would ask this question displays the complete ignorance which is rampant in our media. They refuse to aknowledge the threat of militant Islam because they are still practicing cultural relativism.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Journalists like this could use a dose of Western Civ.

[Mr. Thorne]

Actually, having read IBD (it's quite conservative), I would venture to say that the journalist in question is not asking out of HIS ignorance, but rather to quash the liberal notion that an Islamist is a Sikh is a Fundamentalist Christian.

As an example, let us leave out that question and answer from the article. We still have a nice dissertation on the ills of radical Islam, which any of us could discuss. We also, however, have an opening. An opening for a mouthpiece for CAIR, or any other Islamic organization, to come onto a news program and say, "sure, you say it's bad, but is it any worse than (insert preacher's name here) imposing his morality on us?"

Now, however, IBD's interviewer and Mr. Pipes have nipped it nicely in the bud, with but a single question and a single answer.

IMHO, of course.