{"id":6622,"date":"2013-11-14T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2014-01-14T06:37:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T06:37:37","slug":"truth-muslim-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/truth-muslim-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Muslim ‘Extremism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robin Phillips<\/a><\/p>\n

\"INDONESIA<\/a>Writing in Front Page Magazine last week, Daniel Greenfield made some insightful observations<\/strong><\/a> about Islamic ‘extremism.’<\/p>\n

In the West we tend to associate Islamic extremism with guns, bombs and terrorism, and with good reason. However, in Muslim nations, Islamic extremism is about a lot more than violence.<\/p>\n

In Muslim nations, the battle between extremists and ‘moderates’ is about whether people can listen to music, play chess and watch soccer games. It’s about whether women can drive cars or men can shave their beards.<\/p>\n

Greenfield also goes on to point out that the difference between ‘extremist Muslims’ and ‘moderate Muslims’ obscures an important reality.<\/p>\n

Distinguishing moderate and extreme Muslims is as useful as making distinctions between moderate and extreme Communists. These distinctions did and do exist, but they are less relevant in the context of an overall ideology whose goals are war, dominance and subjugation.<\/p>\n

A moderate Communist was still a pretty terrible person. Likewise, a moderate president of Iran is still a political force in a theocracy that discriminates against non-Muslims, engages in regional religious wars and denies many civil rights to half the population.<\/p>\n

Western liberals obscure this basic fact in their obsession with finding moderates to talk to. Moderate Muslims are still extreme by the standards of the West. They still support violence; the only difference is that they are more willing to try non-violent methods of conquest first.<\/p>\n

In the long run, how much difference is there between the moderate slave owner who tricks his slaves into putting on their own chains and the extremist slave owner who makes them do it at gunpoint?<\/p>\n

The end result is still the same. And that is the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Greenfield concluded his article on the following sobering note:<\/p>\n

It will not matter much if the civilization we know is lost and if the freedoms we are familiar with are taken away by the moderates who play the long political game or the extremists who play the short and violent game. It will make a difference to the great-grandchildren of our conquerors who will be able to play chess or fly kites; but our great-grandchildren will still be as fundamentally unequal as the Copts of Egypt or the Jews of Yemen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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By Robin Phillips Writing in Front Page Magazine last week, Daniel Greenfield made some insightful observations about Islamic ‘extremism.’ In the West we tend to associate Islamic extremism with guns, bombs and terrorism, and with good reason. However, in Muslim nations, Islamic extremism is about a lot more than violence. In Muslim nations, the battle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t