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by tome 4757 days ago
"Islamism" certainly does not mean "Islamic terrorism". It means a belief that Islam should be a force in the public sphere, not just a private religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism

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Which is precisely the thing that is incompatible with Western democracy. Of would you like to amend the First Amendment?
It's absolutely incompatible with democracy, and more importantly in my opinion, with liberalism.