Spencer and Pipes Explain Jihad

Originally published April 22, 2008 (front page)

French translation available here, thanks to a kind soul by the name of Naibed.

This article was picked up by Campus Watch.

Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes spoke at length on April 8 about why they believe ["holy war"] is a much more accurate definition [for jihad]. Spencer and Pipes were invited to speak at Stanford by Students for an Open Society, in an event co-sponsored by The Stanford Review and the Stanford College Republicans.

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Perhaps the most important point of the lecture, which both Spencer and Pipes agreed upon, is that the jihadist ideology cannot be defeated if the West continues to explain it away as unimportant, allow obfuscation by certain groups to replace candid investigation of it, or ignore it entirely. Recognition of the threat that this ideology poses to Western civilization is essential if victory is ever to be attained.