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The facts about Muslim opinion 38

By Anthony Furey ,QMI Agency

First posted: Friday, May 03, 2013 08:00 PM EDT

Worshippers take part in Friday prayers inside the mosque at the Mississauga Muslim Community Centre in Mississauga, Ontario January 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Mark Blinch)

• No room in Canada for ultra-radicals
• Trying to understand ‘moderate’ Islam         

There’s a lot of energy wasted debating what views represent the true Islam.
But figuring out the true interpretation of a religion is not only futile but also irrelevant, at least when it comes to public discourse and policy.

Islam vs. Islamism

Some say some say Islam the religion provides motive for events such as last month’s Boston Marathon bombing, others say it’s a modern extremist variant of the religion, known as radical Islam or Islamism

• Imam Zijad Delic: Islamic faith condemns terror
• Christopher Hitchens: Islamism remains a combustable ideology