No way

Submitted by Hasan Iqbal Wamy (Bangladesh), Jun 5, 2004 at 19:07

You don't have to say that "The Evil Isn't Islam". We already know that. And from time to time you and your civilisation will understand this truth.

But you people in the west need to understand that it is not the followers of Islam that is a threat to your supremacy/dominance, but it is the ideology itself that threatens your position. As long as the Koran is there your position will always be challenged. No matter how many Muslims are modernised (as you envisioned) or how many of them are taking un-Islamic means to justify their terrorist acts. Islam will always be challenging rotten and dehumanising western ideologies (not all your ideologies are rotten though).

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