Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The ground zero mosque incident is inching us toward discussion of the real question no one wants to address: can those who follow Islam coexist in the world with those who don't? There is a lot of loose talk about "moderate Muslims." But I'm not sure there is any such thing as "moderate Islam." In any faith, there are those that sincerely believe the tenets and strive to follow them with rigor. Then there are others that are nominal believers, ethnically part of the faith but not "all in." Are there any "all in" Muslims that are moderate? That believe in a society in which Muslims and non-Muslims should have equal rights? I'm willing to believe there could be a more moderate line of theology that is adopted. Christianity certainly looks different in many ways than it did a few hundred years ago. But it's up to the Muslim community to convince others that the "real faith" is not radical. I keep looking for Muslim leaders to denounce the radicals, but see very little. Many of them keep declaring holy war on the U.S. and Israel. The U.S. has the strongest record of religious tolerance in history. We can get along with others. Muslim community: you need to prove to us that you can, too.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home