The slam in Islam

Submitted by B Kostynuik (Canada), Jul 31, 2002 at 17:46

I would have to disagree with Dr. Pipes regarding so-called "moderate" Islam.

The problem isn't that we're getting Islam wrong, it's that we, at our societal and cultural core, don't agree in "submitting" to a religious political movement whose most vocal and visible leaders behave multiples worse than our most wanted domestic criminals; "by the will of Allah" putting the slam back in Islam.

It seems, Muslim spokespeople don't have any real problem with what is directed by muftis and imans, dictators and despots, but rather have a real issue with our western aversion to such rights-limiting, freedom-denying and anti-secular edicts, whether from Allah or Dubya.

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