When I see a Minaret, I See a Political Symbol of Domination Against Me, One "of the Book" But Not a Submitter to Allah

William Kilpatrick, a consistently wise voice whose 1992 book is outstanding, writes at FrontPage:

Ordinarily it's not a good idea to go around questioning other people's firmly held beliefs. But these are not ordinary times, and Islam is no ordinary religion. As any number of observes have noted, it's partly a religion and partly a supremacist political ideology--although no one seems to be able to say exactly what percent is political ideology and what percent is religion. Is it 50/50 or 60/40 or 80/20? Is it legitimate to criticize the political part of it, but not the religious part? How do you tell where the politics leaves off and the religion begins? Or are they so bound together that they can't be separated?

He gets it. Diana West gets it. Do you do, too? BTW, Kilpatrick's book is Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong.