Ayaan Hirsi Ali wants to know why all of those supposedly moderate Muslims are so quiet about the outrageous brutality being committed in the name of Islam. The gist of the article is summed up in this one excerpt:
I wish there were more Islamic moderates. For example, I would welcome some guidance from that famous Muslim theologian of moderation, Tariq Ramadan. But when there is true suffering, real cruelty in the name of Islam, we hear, first, denial from all these organizations that are so concerned about Islam’s image. We hear that violence is not in the Koran, that Islam means peace, that this is a hijacking by extremists and a smear campaign and so on. But the evidence mounts up.
The silence of the moderates is precisely why I have given up on ever viewing Islam in terms of moderates and fundamentalists. I used to. I’ve never wanted to fall into the bigoted, stereotyping mentality that is too easy to fall into. But because so much barbaric behavior by extremist Muslims is allowed to thrive, that the so-called moderates are not angrily taking to the streets in protest the way they do when someone publishes a cartoon of their fool of a prophet, shows that not a single Muslim is worthy of the respect of other human beings. They are, every one of them, contemptible.
Oh, and I’ve named my computer Mohammed.
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Most of the American Muslim establishment is comprised of Islamist groups claiming to be moderates. True moderate Muslims reject Islamic supremacy and Sharia; embrace religious equality and democracy.
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