The elusive “moderate” Islam…

The media, academia, and politicians claim that moderate Islam predominates in the Muslim world.   They insist “radical” Islam is only in the mind of the Islamophobe.

Reality says otherwise, as Daniel Greenfield elaborates, below.  This is from the website 10News.dk

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Daniel Greenfield’s famous, classical chronicle on how Leftist politicians invented “moderate Islam” to make voters accept the import of Muslim voters for the Left. Statistics backing Greenfield’s point here.

Via Dispatch International:

I have been searching for moderate Islam since September 11 and just like a lost sock in the dryer, it was in the last place I expected it to be.

There is no moderate Islam in the mosques or in Mecca. You won’t find it in the Koran or the Hadiths. If you want to find moderate Islam, browse the newspaper editorials after a terrorist attack or take a course on Islamic religion taught by a Unitarian Sociologist wearing fake native jewelry.
You can’t find a moderate Islam in Saudi Arabia or Iran, but you can find it in countless network news specials, articles and books about the two homelands of their respective brands of Islam.

You won’t find the fabled land of moderate Muslims in the east. You won’t even find it in the west. Like all myths it exists in the imagination of those who tell the stories. You won’t find a moderate Islam in the Koran, but you will find it in countless Western books about Islam.

Moderate Islam isn’t what most Muslims believe. It’s what most liberals believe that Muslims believe.

The new multicultural theology of the West is moderate Islam. Moderate Islam is the perfect religion for a secular age since it isn’t a religion at all.
Take Islam, turn it inside out and you have moderate Islam. Take a Muslim who hasn’t been inside a mosque in a year, who can name the entire starting lineup of the San Diego Chargers, but can’t name Mohammed’s companions and you have a moderate Muslim. Or more accurately, a secular Muslim.

An early generation of Western leaders sought the affirmation of their national destinies in the divine. This generation of Western leaders seeks the affirmation of their secular liberalism in a moderate Islam.

Even if they have to make it up.

Without a moderate Islam the Socialist projects of Europe which depend on heavy immigration collapse. America’s War on Terror becomes the endless inescapable slog that the rise of ISIS has once again revealed it to be. Multiculturalism, post-nationalism and Third World Guiltism all implode.

Without moderate Muslims, nationalism returns, borders close and the right wins. That is what they fear.

If there is no moderate Islam, no moderate Mohammed, no moderate Allah, then the Socialist Kingdom of Heaven on Earth has to go in the rubbish bin. The grand coalitions in which LGBT activists and Islamists scream at Jews over Gaza aren’t the future; they’re the Weimar Republic on wheels.

Flash back to Obama in his tan suit wearily saying that he has no strategy for ISIS. The original plan was to capture Osama alive, give him a civilian trial, cut a deal with the moderate Taliban and announce the end of the War on Terror before the midterm elections.

So much for that.

Moderate Islam is a difficult faith. To believe in it you have to disregard over a thousand years of recorded history, theology, demographics and just about everything that predates 1965. You have to ignore the bearded men chopping off heads because they don’t represent the majority of Muslims.

Neither does Mohammed, who did his own fair share of headchopping. The real Islam is a topic that non-Muslims of no faith who hold sacred only the platitudes of a post-everything society are eager to lecture on without knowing anything about it.

Their Islam is not the religion of Mohammed, the Koran, the Hadiths, the Caliphs or its practitioners in such places as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq or Indonesia. Their Islam is a religion that does not exist, but that they fervently believe must exist because without it their way of life is as doomed as the dodo.

They aren’t Muslims. They have no faith in Allah or the Koran. Instead they have faith in the goodness of an Islam that exists without resort to scriptures, theology or deity. This may seem strange to actual believers, but after all their own poor tattered scraps of Christianity or Judaism don’t bother paying too much attention to deities or scriptures except when it comes to cherry-picking quotes about tolerance.

Is it any wonder that they treat Islam the same way?

The true moderate Muslims are secular liberals of loosely Christian and Jewish persuasion who have invented and believe in a moderate Islam that doesn’t exist outside of their own heads. This secular Islam, which values all life, is dedicated to social justice and universal tolerance, is a counterpart of their own bastardized religions. And they are too afraid to wake up and realize that it doesn’t exist.

When American and European leaders insist that Islam has nothing to do with the latest Islamic atrocity, they are not referencing a religion practiced by Muslims, but an imaginary religion that they imagine Muslims must practice because the alternative is the end of everything that they believe in.

Their moderate Islam is light on the details, beyond standing for social justice, fighting Global Warming and supporting gay rights, because it is really multiculturalism wearing a fake beard. When a Western leader claims that the latest batch of Islamic terrorists don’t speak for Islam, he isn’t defending Muslims, he’s defending multiculturalism. He assumes that Muslims believe in multiculturalism because he does.

Moderate Islam is just multiculturalism misspelled. Its existence is a firm article of faith for those who believe in multiculturalism.

Dissuading a believer in moderate Muslims from his invented faith by citing the long trail of corpses or the hateful Hadiths that call for mass murder is futile because these are not the roots of his religion. He doesn’t know what a Hadith is nor does he care. As a social justice man in good standing, he attributes the violent track record of Islam to European colonialism and oppression.

He has never read the Koran. He has read a thousand articles about how Muslims are oppressed at the airport, in Gaza, in Burma and in Bugs Bunny cartoons. They are his new noble savages and he will not hear a word against them. Having colonized their identities in his imagination (despite the marked up copy of Edward Said’s Orientalism that he keeps by his bedside) he treats them as reflections of his ego.

When you say that moderate Muslims don’t exist, you are calling him a bad person. When you challenge Islam, you are attacking multiculturalism and he will call you a racist, regardless of the fact that Islam is as much of a race as Communism, Nazism or the Mickey Mouse Fan Club were races.

The moderate Muslim is an invention of the liberal academic, the secular theologian, the vapid politician and his shrill idiot cousin, the political activist. Like the money in the budgets that underpin their plans and the scientific evidence for Global Warming, he does not exist.

And it is not necessary that he should exist. It is only necessary that we have faith in his existence.

The degraded lefty descendants of Christians and Jews wait for a moderate Muslim messiah who will reconcile the impossibilities of their multicultural society by healing the conflicts between Islam and the West. Until they find him, they have to believe, not in a divinity, but in the moderate Muslim.

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All of the above makes even more sense when you review the following:  (thanks to Robert D.):

IS THERE A COMMON DENOMINATOR HERE?

*The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
*The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
*The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
*The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim
*The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
*The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
*The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
*The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
*The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
*The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
*The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
*The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
*The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
*The Beirut U.S. Embassy Bombers were Muslims
*The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims
*The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
*The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
*The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
*The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
*The Beirut Marine Barracks Bombers were Muslims
*The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims 

*The First World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
*The Bombay, Mumbai, India Attackers were Muslims
*The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
*The Nairobi, Kenya Shopping Mall Killers were Muslims
*The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims
*The Sydney, Australia Lindt Cafe Kidnapper was a Muslims
*The Peshawar, Pakistani School Children Killers were Muslims

*The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
*The cop killer in New York City was a Muslim

THE REST OF US?

*Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
*Baha'is living with Jews = No Problem
*Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
*Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
*Hindus living with Baha'is = No Problem
*Christians living with Jews = No Problem
*Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
*Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
*Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
*Baha'is living with Christians = No Problem
*Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
*Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
*Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
*Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
*Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
*Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem

CONTRAST THIS WITH:

*Muslims living with Jews = Problem
*Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
*Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
*Muslims living with Baha'is = Problem
*Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
*Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
*Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
*Muslims living with Christians = Problem 

*MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = VERY BIG PROBLEM

***********THE CONSEQUENCES ***************** *
*They're not happy in Gaza
*They're not happy in Egypt
*They're not happy in Libya
*They're not happy in Iran
*They're not happy in Iraq
*They're not happy in Yemen
*They're not happy in Pakistan
*They're not happy in Syria
*They're not happy in Lebanon
*They're not happy in Nigeria
*They're not happy in Kenya
*They're not happy in Sudan
*They're not happy in Morocco
*They're not happy in Afghanistan

SO, WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY?
*They're happy in Australia
*They're happy in Belgium
*They're happy in France
*They're happy in Holland
*They're happy in Italy
*They're happy in Germany
*They're happy in Spain
*They're happy in Sweden
*They're happy in Denmark
*They're happy in the USA & Canada
*They're happy in Norway & India
*They're very happy in England (UK) (Loads of Welfare Benefits)

They're happy in almost every country that is not Islamic!

And who do they blame? Not Islam... Not their leadership.. . Not themselves.. .

THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES WHERE THEY ARE HAPPY!!

And they want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the
countries they came from where they were unhappy !!!!

*Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
* Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
*Al-Shabbab Somalia: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

AND DOZENS MORE!!!!!!