Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:46:59 AM
"First, though, an explanation of what I meant by Muslims who "support militant Islam": these are Islamists, individuals who seek a totalistic, worldwide application of Islamic law, the Shari‘a. In particular, they seek to build an Islamic state in Turkey, replace Israel with an Islamic state and the U.S. constitution with the Koran."
Counting Islamists
The
recent distribution of some 28 million copies in the United States of the 2005 doc-umentary
Obsession has stirred heated debate about its contents. One lightening rod for criticism concerns my on-screen statement that "10 to 15 percent of Muslims worldwide support militant Islam."
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