Intimidation of Moderate Muslims in the US

Jamal Miftah, in an attempt to stand up for moderate Islam, wrote an op-ed in his local Tulsa , OK paper condemning terrorism.  Of course, his local Mosque backed him up, right?  Nope.  They kicked him out, called him anti-Muslim, and made him feel threatened.  So if i claim that there are no moderate Muslims, what’s going on here?   First, check out the Hot Air video.

Jamal, being a good-hearted man, wants to abhor the violence he sees in the name of Islam.  The problem?  They are inseparable, and he really is being anti-Islam, because he is denying obvious Islamic teaching.  Hopefully, he is on his way to realizing that you can’t be a kind, humanistic person and a faithful Muslim.  He will soon see that "moderate Muslim" is an oxymoron, and he will have to choose to leave Islam or live as an essentially cultural (i.e. nominal) Muslim who does not really follow the teachings of Mohammed.

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Denmark continues hard line on Islamic extremism

As noted previously, Denmark is at the forefront of no-nonsense western responses to militant Islam.  Now SIAD (Stop the Islamification of Denmark) has stepped it up a notch.  This week, they called for certain verses of the Koran to be banned in Denmark, since they violate the clauses of the Danish Constitution prohibiting speech that incites violence.

SIAD took the trouble to send the relevant information as a press
release to Al Jazeera and the embassies of various Muslim countries.  "We have also sent it to Al Jazeera and a couple of Arabic embassies….we want to save the Danish imams from
another trip to the Arabic countries. Instead of traveling around,
they could just as well hear the truth from their own channel Al
Jazeera and from their embassies."

I’m not sure banning passages from a book is really effective, but perhaps preaching them can be banned – I mean, that’s where the rubber meets the road – if you preach violence, you get closed down, period. 

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There are no moderate Muslims

Those of us who want to see an end to Islamic terrorism, yet know the terrorist bent of both the Koran and the Hadith, have struggled with whether or not Islam can be reformed.  As I have written, it certainly can’t return to first principles (restoration), because it is in those that we find the blatant racism and violence.  Their only moderating approach will be one of liberalism, which has a better descriptor than “moderate,’ which is nominal.  Similar to “nominal Christians,” they don’t follow the teachings very closely, and merely look for a positive moral structure and humanistic ethic dressed in faith.

In fact, this truth about the rotten root of Islam is why Muslim turned atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of the new book Infidel, has called term “moderate Muslim” an oxymoron.   With Islam, returning to first principles is to return to righteousness by the law, murder, deception, and control, in the name of Allah.   Others have recently written about the myth of the moderate Muslim, and although this is somewhat a semantic discussion, the point is that, theologically speaking, it is very difficult to formulate a “moderate” Muslim theology based on the Koran and Hadith.

This is what separates Christianity from Islam – a return to the first principles of Christ (a.k.a. the “fundamentals”) is a return to personal piety, good works, love, and preaching righteousness, but not fear, coercion or compulsion (even though some Christian religionists may resort to such).  However, I can already predict that the liberal mindset, which can’t distinguish between preaching righteousness and Islamic oppression, will not see this very significant and real distinction.  But I’ll deal with that in my next post.