Below is a short but excellent response by an ACT! for America chapter leader in Arizona to an article by Dr. Krauthammer that erroneously asserts that Islam is not intrinsically Islamist.
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Dear Dr. Krauthammer,
In your otherwise excellent article in today's Washington Post you wrote:
"Islam is no more intrinsically Islamist than present-day Germany is Nazi..."
This assertion is patently false. Of course, Islam is intrinsically "Islamist" because of what is in the Koran and the sayings of Muhammad which are inseparable from Islam. "Islamism" cannot possibly be separated from "Islam".
This does not mean that all Moslems follow the Islamist doctrines of Islam. You are making a common error of conflating the doctrines of Islam with the behavior of Moslems who may or may not follow the doctrines. "Islam" could mean "the world of Islam including the behavior of Moslems", and, if that is what you mean, then you should be clear about it and say "Muslims" instead of "Islam".
However, "Islam" usually refers to the body of Islamic doctrines and beliefs. To anyone who has read the Koran and the sayings of Muhammad, as well as the writings of the most respected Islamic religious authorities, it is perfectly clear that Islam, as a body of doctrines and beliefs, contains the Allah-given requirement for Moslems to make war on non-Moslems and to establish sharia law throughout the world. Even if many or most Moslems do not follow those doctrines, many other Moslems do follow them. Because those doctrines are taught and preached throughout the Islamic world, there will always be many Moslems who will take them seriously. Therefore, those jihadist, supremacist doctrines (both violent and non-violent!) will always be a source of trouble for the world.
Respectfully yours,
act-arizona@cox.net
Phoenix, Arizona
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