53So along with the “fellow- travelers”— and I’ve ex-
plained why I disagree with them— you have these
bigots. Now, the bigots, whether they are of the Is-
lamist variety or the anti- Muslim variety, essentially
agree on a few matters. One is their belief that
Islam itself— not Islamism—is a supremacist ide-
ology that is here to take over the world; another is
that, therefore, Muslims and non- Muslims can
never live equally and peacefully together, but must
separate into religiously defi ned entities.
Of course, you can see how that suits Islamists,
but it also suits Golden Dawn and other groups that
would be happy to expel all Muslims from Eu rope,
even those who were born and raised there. These
two groups share a vision, except that for one, it
manifests—in its most extreme form—in the ter-
rorist Anders Breivik, and for the other, in the 7/7
jihadist terrorists in London. I was not surprised to
learn that Breivik quoted al- Qaeda extensively in
his terrorist manifesto. One of these extremes is op-
posed to a “Muslim takeover,” and the other is in
favor of it, but they both subscribe to that divisive,
sectarian apocalyptic vision. To counter such ex-
tremism, our challenge is to expose and undermine
the “fellow- travelers,” which I try to do on a regular
basis, while at the same time opposing the bigots.
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