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Evasion and Consequences: An Answer to War on Terror’s Most Urgent Question: Who is the Enemy?
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; David Horowitz Freedom Center
Author(s): Daniel Pipes
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Series: Hoover Digest
Topic: International relations (International peace and security)
Politics (Political ideologies and movements)
Keywords: Terrorism; National Security; War on Terror
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The enemy in the war on terror is Islamism, a radical, utopian version of Islam. Islamists, adherents of this well-funded, widespread, totalitarian ideology, are attempting to create a global Islamic order that fully applies the Islamic law (sharia). With the enemy thus defined, the needed response becomes clear. It is twofold: vanquish Islamism and help Muslims develop an alternative form of Islam. Not coincidentally, this approach roughly parallels what the Allied powers accomplished vis-à-vis the two prior radical utopian movements: fascism and communism.