Where are the conservative Muslims?

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Five questions non-Muslims would like answered
Sunday, November 13, 2005
By: Dennis Prager
{Conservative~by~nature's comments are enclosed in parentheses.}


The latest events prompt sincere questions that law-abiding Muslims need to answer for Islam's sake, as well as for the sake of worried non-Muslims.

1) Why are you so quiet?

There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam? {Demonstrating against the murder of Muslims by Muslims doesn't count...when you demonstrate against Muslim atrocities against Israelis or Christians, then we'll believe you are truly horrified by these extremists.}

2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

{Christianity IS a religion of peace and love. Islam? I don't think so....}
If Israeli occupation is the reason for Muslim terror in Israel, why do no Christian Palestinians engage in terror? They are just as nationalistic and just as occupied as Muslim Palestinians.

3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?

Muslim-majority states account for a majority of the world's "not free" states. And of the 10 "worst of the worst," seven are Islamic states. Why is this?

4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?

Russian schoolchildren murdered; Indonesia Christian children beheaded and shot in the face; slaugter of foreign workers trying to free "Iraq"; Iran calling for the extermination of Israel.

5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?

{These are fair questions. Conservative Muslims need to address them~~if they want to convince the rest of the world that terrorism in Allah's name is an aberration. Because right now, it does not appear to be an aberration. It appears to be the accepted norm.}

Instead of confronting these problems, too many of you deny them. Muslims call my radio show to tell me that even speaking of Muslim or Islamic terrorists is wrong. After all, they argue, Timothy McVeigh is never labeled a "Christian terrorist." As if McVeigh committed his terror as a churchgoing Christian and in the name of Christ, and as if there were Christian-based terror groups around the world.

Hundreds of millions of non-Muslims want honest answers to these questions, even if the only answer you offer is, "Yes, we have real problems in Islam." Such an acknowledgment is infinitely better — for you and for the world — than dismissing us as anti-Muslim.

We await your response.

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