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Isis vs Islamism
I am a critic of all religion. And i have made no secret of the fact that i think islam is the worst religion on most points, currently ruling the minds of a significant part of humanity. But there's a distinction between nominal moslems or those who are fairly non committal in their faith and islamists. Islamism is the commitment to impose islam on the rest of society. It's intrinsically political. And jehadism is that variant of islemism that intends to do this by force, as opposed to winning elections or some other process. I agree with maja that the way forward is to convince the moslem world to be increasingly secular and liberal. That