The "Moderate" Muslim Scholar Industry

Dear Majid,

I concur with your observations, and those of others who have warned us similarly. Unfortunately, warnings are not sufficient. More radical and systematic responses to these lies are required if our children can be assured of living in a secular society based on the values that made the West great, and could illuminate the entire planet.

It is not just the so-called "moderate" Muslims who must be outed, named, quoted, shamed in public for their deceit and deception; but the similarities in ideology and strategy of the secular Left and the salafi Muslims require articulation, along with the politicalization of the term "Islamophobia".

The secular Left espouses absolute equality and so do salafi Muslims...the former conceive of equality between all Leftists, salafi Muslims between all of their followers. Both espouse a kind of socialism that denigrates the rights and responsibilities of the individual in favor of the rule of the ijma or consensus. Both are in favor of eradicating their naysayers. Both wish to replace the pluralism of humanity with a totalitarian state and a compliant population. Leftists believe that Muslims will come around to their point of view; and salafis are confident that Leftists will either be converted or eradicated, along with all other challengers to the hegemony of Islam. It is the partnership between the two that endangers the very existence of civil society as we know it.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to hound him out of his job for speaking out.

Tariq Ramadan is one of the worst of these "moderate" Muslims... His suave, denigrating-of-critics approach has fooled many who watch his talks and "debates"; and few have managed to show him up in public. These include Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Murray and Sam Harris, all of whom have challenged his honesty; and exposed the Taqiyya in his words.

Another slimy one is Reza Aslan, but he pales in comparison, although the US government was quick to invite his "wisdom" and commentary.
But the worst of all "moderates" is Barak Obama, whose Muslim faith has yet to be acknowledged by most observers. His removal of all references in security training Manuals to "Islamic" influence in any violence or terrorism was just the start... His appointment of Muslims like Keith Ellison and John Brennan; and complicity in the Muslimisation of his administration is not known to many...
His many utterances in favor of Islam "The World must not belong to those who insult the prophet..." Display his true allegiance, as did his fawning and bowing to the Saudi King...
But the most obvious of his Muslim traits was his hatred of Israel and the "IranDeal"

Excellent article. The statement "unless we begin to wake up to the damage they are doing to their victims, their families and the whole of society, it will not stop" will come true only when the number of victims of Islam reaches thousands at the West. Then, and only then, people start waking up. Will it be too late? We'll see.

An excellent write up by Majid Rafizadeh. Same trend is happening in India. People are uninformed generally, and if it means that a financial gain can be made on an individual/family basis, people seem not to care how it is achieved. Whatever religion they are!

Personnel in public services approach the public to go onto websites that promote the fact that Islam is a religion of peace. These people also advise that the Jews will be responsible for the next Third World War, and that they control half the worlds money.

We have a huge network of people (islamists) working to promote discontent and communal trouble. The public are trying not to take it seriously as a threat to the country and their well being, BUT they are THINKING ABOUT IT.

The 'pretenders' who promote this agenda are obviously being paid.

Perhaps people do not understand the ultimate consequences as they are not aware of what is happening in Europe, UK or other places where freeloaders working under the guise of helpless immigrants are destroying a structured assisted life style. The politicians are assisting in this debacle, presumably to keep their jobs!

I was hopeful that people in Europe etc., would wake up and see the wood for the trees, but it looks to be a little late to see a sensible structured change. Based on Majid's overview the end product looks to be history repeating itself with yet ANOTHER muslim engendered slaughter of people who do not conform.

Britain is referred to, in this article, as a democratic country. This seems no longer to be the case as the freedom of speech no longer exists in Britain that should rather be referred to as a pre-Islamic country.

Theresa May and her cronies are a prime example of appeasing the Muslims that successive UK governments have allowed these people to settle in a country who have absolutely nothing in common with the history, the heritage and the British way of life. These people have a totally different mindset to those of European heritage and have no intention of ever assimilating, yet after numerous attacks by people shouting allah ackbar, May does not have the guts to call these people what they really are, instead she continues to appease them and stating that these attacks are not related to Islam and that ISIS is not part of Islam, although they worship the same God and use the Koran and sharia law to carry out their barbaric murders. PM May is so supportive of these followers of Islam that she is protecting them from any criticism by coming down hard on any patriots that dare protest in any way at the destruction of their once great country. Two of Britain Firsts' leaders are now in prison for daring to call a Muslim rapist, a rapist. She never mentions the grooming gangs that have raped and tortured white girls en masse for years or the Isis fighters returning from committing horrific deeds, or the 32,000 known supporters of terrorism. With leaders like this, no wonder that Britain and Europe are at boiling point.

The Left seem happy to accommodate these 'moderate' Muslim scholars. They dislike their Judeo-Christian roots and know that radical Islam helps with changing society from within, and bringing in the new world order. There is probably also those on the Left who don't realise how political correctness stifles free speech, or that the concepts of 'tolerance' and 'equality' for instance, which the Left keeps talking of, are not afforded to Jews and Christians. This tolerance of Muslim apologists seems to cover up a sinister agenda, I think.

Media coverage varies according to the local colour.
Complaints about the media include those who have tried to demonstrate by entering into long marches of representation against legislation that favours abortion, noting that media instead favour pro-choice. Media in Canada favoured the politician, not the cod industry, and so now there is no cod to speak of worth fishing for. Media in Australia was supposed to be verifiable fact. Now, much of it is opinion based. The onerous battle of taking the media to task by writing letters can be stifled by a shortsighted editorial staff who edit letters. Even religious letter writing has to fit in or be edited, so people stop writing letters. There also is a massive uphill battle to actually keep alive the freedom of the press. Public exposure is the only way, and discipline in mind and body essential in order to have the resilience necessary to cope with the constant threats that arise, particularly among academics. This is well known as an approach in universities in the US, as Brigitte Gabriel has made clear. This is all part of "The Project" (which she has written about in "They must be stopped"), that is about a hundred year plan for global domination, put together in 1928 by the Muslim Brotherhood, with seventy offshoot terrorist organisations but is relatively unknown. It includes such events as discussed as "moderates", who actually get into positions of influence, and make the process of Islamization so much easier for Islam. These must be resisted.

I applaud Dr. Rafizadeh's honesty about the issue of "fake" moderates who in reality whitewash the brutal acts Muslims do in the name of Islam. However, I personally doubt that Islam can be reformed, or made more moderate by persuading Muslims not to engage in acts of savagery, extreme cruelty, etc. They are following the lead of Muhammad and the verses in the Koran which encourage Islamic followers to kill all those who do not accept what the Koran says to do.

I suppose it is another example of life imitating art. See Michel Houellebecq, Submission, translated from the French by Lorin Stein (London: William Heinemann, 2015).

There are no moderate muslims because there is no moderate islam - they all use the same Qur'an.

Islam itself is an obvious lie, even using it's own inherently contradictory claims against it:

Notice how Muhammad didn't name his new religion "Allah," or "Allahism," or "The Truth About Allah," because that would have been kind of honest; in stead, he called it "Submission" (to Might-Makes-Right) which kind of gives it all away!

;-)

One would think that, being indivisible and all, everyone and every thing automatically Submits in toto to Allah, just by existing. All the other squirrely stuff is in the Qur'an is obviously only designed to confuse people to make them Submit more specifically to Moe himself.

And as for our complicit leftists' own claims:

Using the excuse of others' potentially hurt feelings to censor discussing crimes is thought control.

Moreover, it's thought control in aid of suppressing opposition to crime, which only endorses crime.

It is a strategy, plain and simple. Win the minds and hearts of the vulnerable Left by softly invading the body politic with a small gentle reasonable voice. Organize the left to make the case for "moderate" Islam. Lobby the government institutions and ultimately undermine democracy which is an enemy and the antithisis of teachings of the Koran and the principals of Islam.

Thanks for pointing out again the generally common practice of Muslims to employ deception (referred to as taqiyya, a teaching in the Quran) in dealings with non-believers and of course in dealing among themselves.

"Radical": the word means "to the root", thus "radical Islam" is a form of Islam that goes to the root of Islamic teaching - i.e. it follows the example of Mohammed closely.
Given that Mohammed is at the centre of Islam, such an interpretation is not "extremist" either, arguably it is centrist in that it centres on the most important exponent of Islam.
Today words like "radical", "fundamental" and "extremist" have largely lost their true meanings and are also loaded with (false) emotive over and undertones.
The "non-moderate" Muslims and Islam the author speaks of are best described as "orthodox".

"...we are indoctrinating the literally millions of innocent children who will be either the perpetrators or victims of the next radical Islamic terror attacks -- including Muslims."

Including Muslims? Well, what should one expect? Embracing Islam is like grabbing a starving tiger by the tail.
To look at the sort of person Muhammad was as described in the Buhari, and the Sunna, wouldn't this appeal to characters with an ax to grind long before they arrive at Islam? Muhammad was not terribly successful when he evangelized Islam -- he became infinitely successful when he became a "conquerer".

Of course, this article is precisely correct, but no solution is available. Those people encouraging others to play the political game for their own benefit is the theological picture of selling one's soul. People such as Robert Spencer who promotes the idea:

"No matter what your personal views are, you must be a Muslim apologist -- an apologist for radical Islam -- and present yourself as a 'moderate' Muslim scholar."

He is by no means the only one -- the entire liberalized West is obviously on the cutting edge of their own demise. Why? it's an ideological framework being created for the removal all who disagree. Enough with diplomacy, moral rectitude, and the rest of the pesky nonsense -- make the likeminded rich, rewrite the Bible, make the Muslims the chosen people -- and alas, paradise.
It is crystal clear insight on the part of Majid, but notice no one is ever able to develop a solution which will have a prayer of being implemented -- all the while it's a runaway train.

Thank you for this extremely valuable and insightful article. Millions of people in western and European countries should read it and wise up.

There is no moderation for Islam. Simply one extreme to another! There is no reasoning with Islamist's, they seek the death of the infidel including all Christians and Jews. Others may never do more than serve their Islamic rulers.

Thank you for keeping us informed with the truth. Please continue to do so.

I would rather remain moderate surrounded by my own type, indigenous UK, thank you very much. Anything else is merely dressed up to appear decent. When I was young we did not need the security and our police did not have to waste their time and risk their lives investigating the bogus immigrants from the East and the South.

Are there moderate or reformed Muslims who progressive, I believe the answer is yes. However, I have read moderates and defenses of moderates that I can not accept as compatible with those terms when I use them. The crux of it is a simple question and how people answer it. When a Muslim, a friend and man I admire tells me the Jesus of the Koran is the same as the Jesus of Judaism and Christianity, I am being lied to.

In the account of Islam, Jesus did not die on the cross for our sins he ascended and will return much like the Jesus of Revelation leading an Army. In Jewish tradition Jesus died on the cross, he was a good man but that's it, story over. Christians believe Jesus died on the cross arose from the grave and ascended into heaven and the entire process beginning with the Covenants of Judaism full fills our hope in life eternal.

Christians today are discriminated against for their religious beliefs over 90,000 Christians died because of their identity.

When a person purporting to be a moderate Muslim claims they are reformed tolerant, how do I now that holds true if the population balance changes as its been doing in Europe or in countries where sharia law is placed and despite the rosy picture of living under sharia it is not as liberating or equitable as American civil law.

If someone wants to believe I'm nuts or deceived because I believe in the resurrection and then discriminates against me for my beliefs I have recourse under civil law.

A key part of radicalism in the USA today is to vilify Christians and their beliefs and blame us for the ills of the world, it is become as virulent as antisemitism.

So please don't try and sell me on a moderate form of Islam unless Muslims are willing to with Christians as equals under the law and not just in countries where they are the minority.

I cannot understand for the life of me why intelligent people in government do not understand or heed the advice of Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, a Harvard educated scholar and published author, who has first hand knowledge of the dangers of so called moderate Islam. Our democratic leaders do not care about our safety, they care only for gaining votes from the gullible public and the Muslim population to stay in control. Even with dire warnings from those people who have experienced the dangers and know the culture, our politicians are turning a blind eye to keep our country safe from terrorists. It's pathetic to see how so many selfish politicians not only here but also abroad have intentionally disregarded the warnings and allowed their citizens to be raped or slaughtered in the name of "political correctness".

In Britain, we have amongst others "Tommy Robinson and Britain First", just two examples of those that have not been taken in by "moderate" Islam. There is, of course, Douglas Murray who also speaks out against the extremely dangerous Muslims within who are not ever going to recognise other faiths or cultures. It doesn't matter where in the world they are either, these people want to cause continual friction, and it doesn't matter to them whether or not they are living in a safe Western country, they want to bring war and conflict and enforce their religion and cultural practices upon people who were naive enough to welcome them. Governments have had the wool pulled over their eyes, they've been taken in by lies and deceit and they don't appear to be able to or are scared to investigate the truth! Some governments actually employ "ex-radicals" to mentor Muslims who went willingly to join ISIS and have now returned to their "home" countries because ISIS has been smashed. The naivety is astonishing. And yet if anybody should speak out against this "programme" they are in the eyes of the law, guilty of a "hate crime"! If joining ISIS and murdering innocent people isn't a hate crime then what the hell is? The politicians are turning the world inside out and upside down with their crazy policies. It's almost a badge of honour to be a terrorist, and some of them have in real terms been rewarded for their actions!

Why is it that the common people know far more than the political classes? Simple. They are out on the streets, they see and hear what is going on. Governments always seem to be 2 years or more behind what is public knowledge, they are far too slow to grasp the seriousness of a situation. They have failed to see the danger of Islam in the West and instead have chosen to make taxpayers pay for the extra security required rather than face the problem head-on. Or the other side of the argument could be that they are simply just cowards! Muslims are lying and will keep on lying as long as the gullible politicians are willing to listen. By the time they see the true goal of Islam and Muslims, it will be far too late!