06 August 2009

A Moderate Muslim Revolution

.... In Ireland, Imam Shaheed Satardien left his mosque, repulsed by their following of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a top Muslim Brotherhood theologian. He has started his own mosque, where he preaches against Wahhabism and extremism and teaches moderate Islamic beliefs, such as the belief that women should be seen and heard freely. He’s received numerous death threats as a result.

The United States is seeing moderate Muslim organizations rise up to compete with Muslim Brotherhood fronts like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has seen a dramatic decrease in support from the Muslim American community.....

.... This headline is just two days old: “Turkey: Man Assaulted for Missionary Activities.” No number of ‘encouraging’ factoids that you may cite will cancel the fact that non-Muslim minorities in Muslim majority countries will always be in decline and under pressure from a supremacist and bigoted majority. .... Even at the very best, your trends would take decades of progress to reach something barely resembling Western freedom. [Pajamas Media] Read more