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If the common denominator between jihadis and moderate Islamists is the belief in the absolute necessity of a government that implements the Shari’ah in its entirety, the belief that Islam provides a total, comprehensive system that legislated every conceivable aspect of human life; then the only thing that makes one extremist and the other moderate…

People like Sam Harris and Bill Warner have a shallow reading of Islam which they think is the true understanding, and which is remarkably similar to the reading of Islam by radical extremists, who also believe theirs is the true reading. Islamophobes and Muslim extremists are also similar in their dismissal of over a millennia…