Is there an ideology that is causing havoc from the streets of Muslim cities like Peshawar, Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Jakarta, Tehran, etc. to the streets where Muslims are a minority like in the streets of New Delhi or Mumbai?

Of course.

I am Muslim and I am not denying the ideology that has some currency among a certain subset of Muslims.

The epicenter of the “War on Terror” is in South Asia, not the Arab Middle East or Arab North Africa!

However, the article grossly characterizes Islam in a pejorative light.

Many South Asian Muslims look at Hinduism as an abrasion of ancient prejudices and biases. The treatment of widows being condemned to a life of poverty and misery, including child brides is horrendous. The caste prejudicial system and the wanton violence of Hindu mobs ransacking Muslim slums and villages is not very enlightened.

India may be an emerging superpower, but Desis of all religious stripes have social issues they must overcome to join the community of “civilized nations.” That means abandoning the tribal and communal prejudices of our cultures.

Sorry for the longish, maybe orthogonal, comment, but I think it’s relevant here, as an example of how seemingly assimilated, well-off muslims still engage, or have to deal with, this type of leadership in free societies.

Gustavo, do you think if someone admits to you that they are frightened by Islam, because of their experiences of seeing really disturbing extremist ideology up close, do you think they are bigots? Because the heat and noise generated by extremist Muslims really is alienating people from Islam in general, because it seems like the prevailing narrative of Islam today is one of something sinister, coercive, intolerant and potentially violent. And this makes them frightened of the religion. And when they articulate this, and do identify the existence of ideologies of supremacism and bigotry that need to be addressed, they are attacked sometimes as being irrational. Do you understand how this can be frustrating, and is actually, really unhelpful to society?

A refreshingly cant-free perspective.

that’s what tunku does, at the end of the article-

So, first, it should be part of the mandatory duty of every member of the armed forces to report any remarks or behavior of fellow service members that could be construed as indicating unfitness for duty for any reason. Second, there should be a duty to report such data up the chain of command, regardless of the assessment of the local commander. Third, there should be a single high-level Pentagon or army department that follows all such cases in real time, whether the potential ground for alarm is sympathy with white supremacism, radical Islamism, endorsement of suicide bombing or simple mental unfitness. Let the first lesson of the Hasan atrocity be this: The U.S. Army has to be a PC-free zone. Our democracy and our way of life depend on it.

i agree with the nominalist-

Maybe “going Wahabi” would’ve been more appropriate. How about “going Laden”, or “going Taleban”, or “going “Jehadi”? Though none of these captures the “throwing off the cloak of integration” point, because all these terms refer to people who defy integration openly.

the ‘going’ bit captures the throwing off of the cloak

Based on that article, it would bear examination if there is an American constituency desirous of following Pakistan in figuratively joining the Middle East. But would a Muslim say from Turkey be interested in such a relocation?

maybe tamils are not just fifth columns, they are also shiftless enough to get other people to do their dirty work for them.