Morton-I’ve spent quite a few months researching-the Qur’an, Hadiths, Sira, Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Bat Ye’or, Bostom, Fregosi, the Sirat Rasul Allah, Mary Habeck, Patai, even that pseudo-historian and fabulist Karen Armstrong and a lot more and, from what I’ve learned, you’re absolutely correct.
I, too, am skeptical about any help coming to us non-believers from the elusive “moderate Muslims.”
There are many post WWII trends that have led us in the West to our current position, squarely behind the eight ball but, the simple, overarching reason for our inability to clearly see and understand what is right before our eyes and to then confront Islam, is fear. Many people do not want to recognize the inescapable fact that leaders in an Islam reanimated by oil money and fundamentalist ideology have resumed their quest to conquer the world of non-believers that was stopped at the Gates of Vienna in 1683, and that, today, on every continent and in every country, Islam is on the attack. We are being enveloped in a giant pincer movement; one arm is the military/terrorist arm, the other is the “peaceful” arm of demography, the courts, propaganda and strident demands for accommodations to Muslim’s sensibilities and Shari’a law. We must not forget either the internal subversion in which Saudi created and funded and Wahabi run madrassas and Mosques in the West indoctrinate Muslims in the Wahabi brand of Islam. Recognizing these facts and then fighting Islam will involve all of us non-believers in a world-wide war–perhaps bigger that WWII-that will require all sorts of sacrifices, a drastic reordering of priorities and will involve many casualties; a grim situation that may last for generations. Many want this massive storm cloud on the horizon to disappear, for a rescuer to come over the ridge and they are hoping that these fabled “moderate Muslims” will be the ones to come to our aid, to rescue us, somehow reform Islam and banish this looming war. Unfortunately, it ain’t gonna happen. We non-believing residents of the Land of War (Dar al-Harb) are on our own and the sooner we recognize this and suck it up the better.
