To Concerned European from a concerned Jew.

Submitted by Moshe (Israel), Jan 13, 2007 at 16:11

You seem to be talking about some "seedlings of liberal Islam in both Islamic history and in current reality".

To tell you frankly, all I can see in the current Islamic reality is a few scattered helpless and desperate orphan voices of soberness and rationality overwhelmed by a raging furious sea of Islamic hatred. With regard to what seems to be a "liberal Islam" back in history, in my eyes it is more of an "optical illusion" than reality; it may look "liberal" only on the background of the even darker and deeper backwardness and barbarianism of Medieval Europe.

In any case you are very concerned about these imaginary "seedlings" as you are telling us:

"And hardly these seedlings will prosper without an axe which would undercut that forest. Unfortunately many people in the West only give more fertilizers to the trees of the forest."

Well, assuming that all I said above is wrong, and your "seedlings" indeed do exist, could you please elaborate in more concrete terms what do you mean by "an axe which would undercut that forest", and by giving "more fertilizers to the trees of the forest"? I am really curious what in effect are you trying to tell us.

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