Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
