{"id":653,"date":"2004-12-23T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:55","slug":"daniel_pipes_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Pipes Interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via new-to-me blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/philomathean.blogs.com\/philomathean\/\" target=\"browser\">philopundit<\/a> , an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardmagazine.com\/on-line\/010540.html\" target=\"browser\">article in Harvard Magazine about Daniel Pipes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This might be the place for one of Pipes&#8217;s definitions of the adversary, a virtual catalog of frights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Militant Islam derives from Islam but is a misanthropic, misogynist, triumphalist, millenarian, anti-modern, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, terroristic, jihadistic, and suicidal version of it. Fortunately, it appeals to only about 10 percent to 15 percent of Muslims, meaning that a substantial majority would prefer a more moderate version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>Nevertheless, this &#8220;totalitarian ideology,&#8221; even with &#8220;only&#8221; 10 to 15 percent signed on (roughly 100 to 150 million persons worldwide), &#8220;regards itself as the only rival, and the inevitable successor, to Western civilization.&#8221; To many people this is scary stuff. But such warnings are his specialty. Among his many disquieting predictions, he wrote, as early as March 1994:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From [an American] point of view, the Middle East increasingly stands out as a region that develops and exports problems, including political radicals, terrorism, drugs, unconventional weaponry, and conspiracy theories. We should recognize that this region resembles the Pacific rim less than it does Africa; and we should ready ourselves for the many troubles yet to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pipes is the anti-Cole, a PhD in Early Islamic History who says &#8220;I have the simple politics of a truck driver,&#8221; he told an interviewer, &#8220;not the complex ones of an academic. My viewpoint is not congenial with institutions of higher learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funny, to a large extent, neither are mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via new-to-me blogger philopundit, an interesting article in Harvard Magazine about Daniel Pipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}