Islam Vs. ‘Islamism’. The Defeating Jihad panel speaks to it.

On Feb. 11 2015 in Washington, an illustrious group of experts including but not limited to, Diana West, Stephen Coughlin, Clare Lopez, Frank Gaffney, Geert Wilders and many more, delivered a seminar on what the problem is in terms of the geopolitical threat coming from muslims, and what can be done or is not being done about it.

This was a section at the end where Diana West, author of American Betrayal, asked the question about Islam Vs. ‘Islamism, and what is the difference and where does the threat come from exactly.

I  only cut a couple of people’s responses, not because they effected the discussion one way or another, but because I felt they made points which were not directly on topic but dealt with more arcane aspects of American law. For those who wish to hear it though, the entire thing is still available on Youtube starting at hour 5:00

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3 Replies to “Islam Vs. ‘Islamism’. The Defeating Jihad panel speaks to it.”

  1. Andrew McCarthy gets low marks from me for his contribution here.

    He says, ‘If we can get to a point where we have a metric for measuring’ the difference between a Muslim who is a threat and a Muslim who is not a threat to the United States, who cares what is and is not real Islam?

    Right, who cares? But if there is any such metric in this world, what has stopped all those highly-informed and very smart people around that table from discovering it before now? After all the research and investigation, after the long engagement with Islam and Muslims, after 1,000+ years of jihad in Western history and memory? What is Mr. McCarthy even talking about? Advocating more of the wild goose chase for that magical measuring device for individual Muslim threat-level is verging on what John Guandolo calls the pink cloud and unicorn world.

  2. It was interesting to hear from Stephen Coughlin that the Al-Azhar imams told General el-Sisi that his suggestion they fix Islam was apostasy. No surprise.

    Zuhdi Jasser thinks he is ‘the tip of the spear?’ Some spear. I had to google that one.

    ‘Dr. Jasser described himself and his organization as being “at the head of the spear in fighting not only Radical Islam, but Political Islam, and all the offshoots of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and its legacy groups in the West.”’

    http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/alternative-right-wing-conference-w-elder-statesmen-new-activists/2014/03/10/

    The man Robert Spencer calls ‘the moderate Muslim,’ emphasis on the definite article. Zuhdi isn’t the tip of the spear, he’s the tip, shaft, bronze bands and decorative engraving.