My focus is on: CLEAR Democracy, opinion of our majority, Citizens, what Muslims think and do is secundary.

Submitted by Demsci (Netherlands), Dec 13, 2015 at 00:45

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for responding so CLEARLY, Jaladhi. By the way I read your other posts as well, and know a little where you are coming from and the reasons for your opinions.

You say: Telling the truth about Islam is according to Muslims (and their enablers) NOT complimentary for them.

Well; does the degree of "Truth" not also depend on the degree of Clarity, on details, nuances, comprehensiveness? And not only on judgements of veracity of ideologies? Yes, Muslims say Islam is"White" and "counterjihadists" say Islam is "Black", I know. Muslims say Dictatorship is good, counterjihadists that it is bad, that is their prospective opinion out of which they argue.

But I stand in opposition to almost 100 % of both Muslims and Counterjihadists on CLARITY of Islam or LACK THEREOF. And I still say that on the point of clarity Counterjihadists humour and honour Muslims much more than I do. Consider that Quran-Hadiths-Sira (QHS) must have been complete 1200 years ago and that all subsequent TAFSIR was manmade by Muslims, and need not be considered BY DEMOCRATIC CITIZENS, including Counterjihadists, to be the only possible interpretation of QHS!

It is not a matter of who knows Islam best ONLY, it is primarily a matter of giving Democratic Citizen's majority the conviction that QHS is irresponsibly multi-interpretable and that Islam is massively interpreted in anti-democratic way. Once a majority believes this, we can finally put conditions on the religious choices of Muslims!

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