The True Story of Moderate Islam

By Robert Small

September 25, 2011

Ten years after 9/11, our government and most of the media understand as little about Islam as they did before the attack that shook the world. It’s clear from the partners they’ve chosen that “moderate” has been defined as any Muslim group or individual perceived as being remotely helpful in keeping us safe from terrorism.

So eager to start a fresh chapter in U.S.-Muslim relations, they firmly clasped the first Muslim hands extended and forged partnerships out of convenience and fear. What they should have done is seek out partners who believe in our conviction that a nation can be united under God without being governed by a national church or mosque.

As Nina Shea of National Review Online reported in July:

“…the administration is taking the lead in an international effort to ‘implement’ a U.N. resolution against religious ‘stereotyping,’ specifically as applied to Islam. Many OIC members, including Saudi Arabia, police private speech through Islamic blasphemy laws, which the OIC would like to see applied universally and has succeeded in Western Europe, which has laws against religious hate speech.”