The essential nature of Islam goes right back to the Qu’ran and the life of the Prophet, who is considered the ideal man. There is no “moderate” Muslim; there are only those Muslims who are more serious and less serious about their religion. The problem is that there has already been a Reformation in Islam. Sayid Qtub and Hassan el Banna have alreay roused the Muslim world for a return to the Islam of the time of the Prophet, fueled by Western oil money. They really want to return to the seventh Century — women veiled and rule by imams. Science is considered blasphemy because the idea of “natural law” is rejected as a limitation on the powers of Allah, who is not the same god that Christians pray to. If you doubt this, read the Qu’ran and glimpse the mercurial nature of Allah, who can lead the faithful to Perdition, if he wills. God may be good, but in Islam he does not HAVE to be. He is sovereign and can do what he wants, including lie.
