Christian Conservative Leaders Critical Of Islam
11th November 2007
Read it. But they’re still only halfway to where they need to be.
Islam predates Fascism by over a thousand years. Islam doesn’t need concatenation with a 20th century political ideology in order to be properly understood. In fact, attempts to equate a branch of Islam with fascist confuses the issue. The term “Islamofascism” tends to imply something other than Islam itself is the cause of terrorism and the clash of civilizations. That conclusion seems dubious to me. The Jihadists are Muslim fundamentalists. They seek to resurrect the use of all the tactics which Muhammad used in his initial spread of Islam. They are textual literalists.
There is no such thing as a “moderate Muslim”, any more than there is such a thing as a “moderate Communist”; merely confused people who don’t fully understand their own system, or sly dogs trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the ignorant. Immoderation is inherent in the system. That’s what makes it so dangerous. No system that is based on violence against outsiders is compatible with modern civilization, and no system that holds up a mass-murdering pedophile as “the perfect man” is compatible with civilization in any form. It’s time to wake up to that fact and act accordingly.