In yesterday’s post, Hesperado made a comment about the impossibility of knowing whether any given “moderate†Muslim is in fact sincere.
This the central problem for non-Muslims in dealing with Islam, and one to which there is no easy and palatable answer. Any attempt to devise a meaningful solution leads into the sort of ugliness that the average Westerner prefers to avoid thinking about.
The unavoidable fact is that there is no reliable way to determine whether any given Muslim really believes everything in Islamic scripture and law, and is therefore dangerous. He may be a nice guy; he may drink beer and eat bacon and hang out with the kuffar. Yet, since the core tenets of his faith require him to lie, dissemble, and mislead in order to advance the cause of Islam, there is no way to determine his sincerity.
To make matters worse, we have numerous examples of Muslims in the West (often second- or third-generation) who seem fully “integratedâ€, but who suddenly become more religious and are rapidly “radicalizedâ€. Then come the bodies lying in pools of blood in the street, with all the neighbors saying, “I can’t believe it! He was such a nice, quiet, polite man.â€But when that post is copied and pasted above, the quotes and such are garbled.
(BTW, thanks for the link; the entire post is worth reading and is very sobering. As many of us know, Islam is much more than a religion. Adherents are required to spread its ideology throughout the world and use whatever means necessary to do so, including lies, subjugation, terror, etc. We are on the cusp and without taking action to prevent further incursions, our society and lifestyle are most likely doomed.)