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Daniel Pipes is well known for his advocacy of ethnically cleansing
Palestinians. For more understanding of the politics behind the
metaphor of Good muslims versus Bad Muslims, I would recommend reading
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
by
Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher Three Leaves
Category: Current Affairs - Political; Religion - Islam; Social
Science - Islamic Studies
Publisher: Three Leaves
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Pub Date: June 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0-385-51537-5
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover

Here is an excerpt from the books website.

Mamdani dispels the idea of "good" (secular, westernized) and "bad"
(premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments
refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities. The
presumption that there are "good" Muslims readily available to be
split off from "bad" Muslims masks a failure to make a political
analysis of our times. This book argues that political Islam emerged
as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the
terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more
recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war
after its defeat in Vietnam. Mamdani writes with great insight about
the Reagan years, showing America's embrace of the highly ideological
politics of "good" against "evil." Identifying militant nationalist
governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and
Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist
movements, hailing them as the "moral equivalents" of America's
Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars has come to an end with the
invasion of Iraq. And there, as in Vietnam, America will need to
recognize that it is not fighting terrorism but nationalism, a battle
that cannot be won by occupation.

I have read the book.

Highly recommended.

Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya