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Amplification on Moderate Muslims
About your editorial of December 29, 2008
(“May Moderate Muslims increase and flourish”):
As someone who considers himself a “moderate
Muslim” I thank you for your editorial.
Please let me add that most Western newspapers
use the term “moderate Muslim” to refer a Muslim who is either
politically pro-western or even apologetic for being a Muslim.
Many Muslims are uncomfortable with the term.
This is why Dr. Muqtedar Khan wrote that essay from which you
published excerpts.
Within Muslim communities, some who fear that
“moderate Muslims” are more secular and less Islamic use the
term as a mild rebuke to those who think and behave as liberally and
secularly as the majority of Christians in the West and are not too
eager to develop human society on the principle that all mankind are
mere creatures of the Almighty and that the only community, society
or nation worth developing are, as Dr. Khan writes, “the city of
virtue.”
Muslims all over the world have been able to
work in a united front with the diminishing number of Christians who
still believe in and live according to the Bible.
Gibral Muhammad
gmuhammad@gmail.com
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