Muslim adherence to modern values is the goal.

Submitted by Prashant (India), Oct 13, 2022 at 05:57

Dear Dr Pipes,

If Muslims can provide a decent democratic forum where others can talk with them and make honest long-term agreements with them, life on earth will be better. From this point of view the agreement between Lebanon and Israel is important.

Reader Robert suggested that the time is on Israel's side. The Muslims might be a bit on the defensive due to the women's protest in Iran. That, if true, is a good sign.

A lot of events of the last two decades indicate that Islam is unsustainable in its current form and a much needed revolution has started. The destruction of Muslims by Muslims as in Syria and Yemen, the massacre of the Yezidis by Muslims in Iraq, the events of 9/11, the Iranian women's protest, the disgrace of Afghanistan where a Muslim government exists but has no friends, the fast decline of the Pakistani economy, the murders of people by Muslims on live TV, reintroduction of beheading as a modern method of killing by Muslims, the Arab Spring, the isolation of Muslim men, and many other events indicate the peak of Islamic decadence and the beginning of a new era.

I once read about the travelogue of a (the then modern) Indian Muslim family who drove from their home in the heartland of gangetic planes in India to Europe driving through the ME during the early 1900s. They reached their destination in one piece. Those were the times. In those times, most of the Muslim world was under colonial rule. I wish those times do come back but without the colonial rule. I wish stubborn Islam dies and a modern Islam that lives and let's live is born. Hope we are at the beginning of that era.

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