“Radical Islam is a symptom of the disease of which it pretends to be the cure.”
— John Gray (Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern)
“My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it’s with the Muslims, then I’m with the Muslims, if it’s with the West then I’m with the West. It’s about justice and fairness. I am not a tribalist – I’m a Muslim but I didn’t join a tribe. My religion says to stand by the truth – the Koran is very clear when it says “Be witnesses for the sake of God justly even if it’s against yourselves.” And that’s where I stand.
— Hamza Yusuf Hanson (BBC interview)
“The Islamist movement has 2 wings, one illegal and violent, the other legal and political. I believe the latter enjoys better prospects of success than the former. That’s because law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and military forces know how to deal with the illegal and the violent, but the Western world lacks the muscles to defend itself from an insidious radical movement.”
— Daniel Pipes (danielpipes.org)
“The great mistake (of the fundamentalists), is that most of these leaders start with the hudud, criminal punishment. This is the end result of the sharia, not the beginning. The beginning is the rights of the people. There is no punishment in Islam which has no corresponding right.”
— Muhammad Asad (This Law of Ours)
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These writings are filled with internal contradictions and errors which stem from a gross ignorance of Islamic fundamentals and futile attempts to labels Orthodox Muslims following the salaf as extremists and terrorists (reminiscent of the Nazis labelling the Jews as “Christ-killers”).
Allow me to point out one major discrepancy. You quote Daniel Pipes right next to Hamza Yusuf, both supposedly authorities on Islam according to yourself, yet Daniel Pipes has referred to Hamza Yusuf as a “self-proclaimed extremist”!
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/392
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/327
So who ARE the extremists? Are they the heroes, shielax sits on the pedestal, liky Hamza Yusuf? Yet, she quotes ignorant western writers who would even classify these people as extremists. What standards do these people apply in their analysis?!
The truth is clear. Moderation is in following the way of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh as understood by the pious predecessors, while extremisim is in deviating from this path and attacking his followers.
And Allah knows best!
^^lol good contradiction exposed! Its funny that people will quote Daniel Pipes when there is not a single respected Islamic scholar who he does not classify as an extremist!