{"id":3445,"date":"2014-09-14T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2014-09-14T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T19:44:54","slug":"moderate-islam-enables-radicalism-part-of-a-deeper-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/09\/14\/moderate-islam-enables-radicalism-part-of-a-deeper-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"“Moderate Islam Enables Radicalism”: Part of A Deeper Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Moderate"<\/a>
“Moderate” Islamists trying to make you live by Islam’s rules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have seen<\/a> how Islamic “moderates”-be they the Council of American-Islamic Relations, the Organization of Islamic Conference, the Muslim Council of Britain, etc, etc-have been paving the ground for the loathed ISIS and other radicals as they dismiss the militants’ as “un-Islamic”, or claim<\/a> what they do is “a perversion of the faith”, \u00a0or use any other language to exonerate Islam from all wrongdoing-and proving themselves hypocrites in the process:<\/p>\n

Muslims\u2019 use of takfir \u2013 the process of denouncing rival Muslims as apostates or non-Muslims \u2013 reinforces the ideological underpinnings of the very movements they are seeking to tackle.\u00a0Takfirism is the root and enabler of all modern jihadism; takfirist doctrine enables any \u2018true\u2019 Muslim to label those with a rival interpretation of Islam as no longer Muslim.\u00a0This, combined with traditional Islamic jurisprudence that mandates death for apostates, is taken by jihadists as an open license to denounce and then kill their enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For anyone following this blog, however, this is really not news, and not limited to Islam<\/a>, either. As I have pointed out before<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By calling faith a virtue, playing up the religious language, and naming scripture as the source of morality, they [religious moderates] give the extremists precisely the ammunition they need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so, once more, religious\u00a0moderates turn out to be the enablers<\/a> of extremists. To phrase it biblically, there is nothing new under the sun.<\/p>\n

Heck, even President Obama’s account of his career<\/a> in politics confirms this reality-as much as he remains in denial<\/a> of that to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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