Wake-up call for my fellow Muslims
Muslim-bashing. That’s the accusation many of my fellow Muslims now hurl at the various news outlets for their news stories about a Freedom House investigation that found extremist Islamic literature in some leading American mosques. This name-calling is unfortunate.
Since 1980, the Muslim world has experienced an enormous growth of religious fanaticism and extremism the likes of which Islam has not experienced in its 1,400 years. This movement continues to grow because of the spread of Saudi-created and funded Wahhabi Islam, a sect that used to number no more than one percent of all Muslims. But now because of money and technology, it has spread around the world.
Extremism is also growing because of an ideology called political Islam. The basis of political Islam is the rejection of secularism and the belief that the mosque and the state should be completely intertwined. Unfortunately, history has shown that when politics and religion are completely intertwined, disaster results.
Most importantly, extremism in the Muslim world continues to grow because most Muslims are unwilling to admit that we have a problem with extremism and support for terrorism. The response by Muslims to the Freedom House report is not the first time that the Muslim community resorted to denial and accusations of Muslim-bashing when presented with evidence of Muslim culpability.
Excellent article. I just wish I had seen it in the NYT or Newsweek rather than in Townhall.
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In normal times there would be no call for Muslims to prove that they are rational, tolerant people rather than homocidal psychotics. However, as Islamist terrorism continues, ongoing silence on the topic is ever more likely to be taken for approval of terror.
The Muslims’ time is running out, and ends abruptly the instant there’s another major terrorist attack on the US. From that moment on, those who had not previously declared against the terrorists will be considered to support them — and will likely suffer extreme consequences.
Like the applied everyday rule which declares that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Here this is something akin to the Universal Law in operation. Partisanship going overboard heads only for disaster.