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Where are the moderate voices of Islam against the virulent strain of Islamism? Mr. M. Zuhdi Jasser passionately argues that they are hidden by the mainstream media with its misguided attempts to protect minority and religious rights. Jasser cites the way PBS shelved "Islam vs. Islamists":
(Source: M. Zuhdi Jasser at RealClearPolitics.com)
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Where are the moderate voices of Islam against the virulent strain of Islamism? Mr. M. Zuhdi Jasser passionately argues that they are hidden by the mainstream media with its misguided attempts to protect minority and religious rights. Jasser cites the way PBS shelved "Islam vs. Islamists":
The mainstream media (MSM) is apparently blind to the real ideology of Islamism and they allow Islamists to hide their theocracy behind minority politics. The MSM not only avoids the free flow of ideas within the Muslim community, it effectively allows the Islamists completely to stifle any and all debate which would have allowed Muslims to question those in positions of authority within the Islamic community.I wonder whether PBS is trying to protect Muslims by trying to refrain from fanning the flames of irrational, bigoted prejudice by not airing strong criticism of Islamist leaders and this more extreme form of Islam. If so, I think they may be only making matters worse by propping up the worst and most dangerous manifestations of Islam and this dark ideology, and by not giving more light to moderate Muslims. Islamism deserves no more protection than Nazism and should always be shown for what it is - a totalitarian medieval-based ideology. And this Islamism should also be shown for what it is not: it is not Islam. Or at least one hopes that it does not become the definitive Islam.
It is time for the MSM to stop protecting Muslims from one another and to stop stifling the debate many anti-Islamist Muslims would like to wage against leading Islamists. If Muslims are going to form a public expression of Islam which is reconciled with western democracies which separate religion and government, this debate against Islamism needs yet to begin, let alone blossom into cultural change for Muslims.
Islamists fear nothing more than credible and genuine debate against the core political ideology of Islamism from pious anti-Islamist Muslims. With an ideological counter from anti-Islamist Muslims- the Islamist emperor "has no clothes". At every level, they are using America's naïveté about Islam in order to continue their theft of Islam for the political agenda of Islamism. The Islamists know that anti-Islamist Muslims rob them of their minority trump card of Islamophobia and force them to come to terms with the anti-freedom, and anti-liberty and anti-pluralistic ideology of Islamism. Anti-Islamist, pro-Islamic Muslims expose the real motives of Islamists--which is the exploitation of the spiritual path of Islam for political and governmental power and coercion.
The MSM would prefer to facilitate the current Islamist organizations and Islamist imams. Why? It could be a fear of litigation, minority victim politics, or simple ignorance regarding the goals of Islamism.
(Source: M. Zuhdi Jasser at RealClearPolitics.com)
