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American Islamists rely on threat of Islamic violence to make their case

By Alliance Alert

Eugene Volokh writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "[T]he response from Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR . . . 'Can you imagine what this will do to our image around the world . . . And the additional danger it will add whenever there is an American presence in Iraq or Afghanistan?' . . . This of course reminds people about the violent strains of Islam, and the danger those strains pose. But it also shows how some spokespeople for mainstream Islam (here, Hooper) are willing to use the actions by their violent coreligionists as a tool for suppressing non-Muslims? alleged blasphemies and insults. That is precisely the image of mainstream Islam, it seems to me, that Terry Jones is trying to foster. I doubt that this was a cunning plan on Jones? part, but that seems to be the effect."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).