The recent terrorist acts in London and Glasgow should put to rest all that malarkey about "radical" and "moderate" Muslims. Seven of eight suspects arrested worked for the British National Health Service, six of them as physicians who are supposed to cure you, not kill you. These terrorists were not poor uneducated Muslims angry at their miserable lot in the United Kingdom. The eighth suspect, also a medical doctor, was arrested in Australia.
If you read my blog MILITANT MUSLIMS: EXTREMISTS OR TRUE BELIEVERS? (June 16, 2006), you know that I have long believed the terms "radical" and "moderate" when applied to Muslims are a lot of baloney. As with the Christian and Jewish faiths, what you find are Muslims who are fundamentalists and Muslims who are reformist.
The fundamentalists are not extremists or radicals. They are the true believers. Fundamentalist Christians interpret the Bible literally. Fundamentalist Muslims interpret the Quran literally. As with Reform Jews, Muslims who have assimilated into Western societies have diluted their religious beliefs so as to fit in with and be accepted by their predominantly Christian neighbors.
The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the Middle East, in Africa, in the Caucasus, on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia are fundamentalists - the true believers in Islam. So are those who live in the unassimilated Muslim communities which exist throughout Europe.
To the fundamentalists the words of the Quran are sacred. Muhammad commanded the faithful to spread Islam "by the sword" and the Quran calls for "death to the infidels." Among the true believers with their literal interpretation of the Quran, suicide bombers are a fringe group of militant Muslims who are willing to die as martyrs in the name of Allah.
Recent surveys reveal that the young Muslim population of Britain sympathizes with and supports suicide bombers. A significant number of all British Muslims prefer Sharia (Islamic religious law) over secular law. These "moderate" Muslims also support the murdering of Jews in the United Kingdom simply because they are Jews. They expresss little, if any, disapproval of atrocities committed by militant Muslims.
One of the doctors in the Glasgow attack deliberately set himself on fire and repeatedly shouted "Allah achbar" (God is great) before authorities doused the flames. Since the end of the Cold War, almost all acts of international terrorism have been committed by Muslims shouting "Allah achbar."
Rarely has the "moderate" Muslim community ever condemned any of these acts of terror. Fundamentalist clerics in the United States and Europe preach Jihad (holy war) against the West. When is the politically correct crowd going to cut out all this malarkey about 99 percent of Muslims being moderate?
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