Reply #25: Thank God

[CatholicEug]

You can read my mind! Can you tell me what I should have for lunch?

Regarding my defense of Churchill, I give you this from Emad:

"The esteem he is held in by others who are/were his peers dwarfs that of those who accuse him of racism, imperialism or any other ism.

But Churchill's global contribution to humanity stands head and shoulders above that of any living politician today - many of whom owe their freedom and very existence to the courageous stand that Churchill, Roosevelt and Harry S Truman took during World War II."

Regarding use of the word "islamist," I give you the article quoted by Emad, the title of this thread, and the work of Daniel Pipes ... see below

And check out the work of that damn pseudointellectual, Daniel Pipes, who you know, has written extensively on Islam.

Distinguishing between Islam and Islamism
Center for Strategic and International Studies
June 30, 1998
This is a very auspicious date to discuss the subject of Islam and the West, for it was exactly 200 years ago today, by the usual reckoning, that Islam's pre-modern era came to an abrupt end. Tomorrow, on July 1, 1798, Napoleon landed in Egypt. That was the date when the Muslim world became far more aware of Europe, and after which Europe had a more dramatic and direct impact than ever before. If any single date can delineate the beginning of a new era, this one does.

We've been asked to address the question, "Is Islam incompatible with Western civilization?" I can easily say "no" in response. There is as such nothing incompatible about two religions or two religion-based civilizations. They are very broad, they have many strains, and we would have a fairly tame hour were we only to discuss at that level of generalization.