A lone voice in the Muslim wilderness?

I know that there are many who believe that “moderate Muslim” is an oxymoron but I know that there are moderate Muslims. Maybe they could be more accurately classified as modern Muslims who want to be Muslim in a modern, democratic, free world.

You can read “A voice of moderation” by Charles Lewis about one such Canadian man in the National Post.

Tarek Fatah is “a well-known voice of moderate Islam, someone who regularly condemns in columns, interviews and letters to newspaper op-ed pages extremism and those who push Islamic supremacy.”

It’s hard to excerpt and do the article justice but here’s how it ends:

He said Arab domination has overshadowed the message of peace and brought a strain of fanaticism that will be the ruin of everyone. And because so much Saudi money is used to finance Islamic organizations, including mosques, in the West, the situation is dire, he argues.

“The sermons in those [financed] mosques are politicized and have only one agenda: that Western society is a satanic pagan society and it is the obligation of every young Muslim to fight the pagan in jihad,” Mr. Fatah said.

“As for Muslims,” he said, “we are being used as frontline troops by those who seek medievalism and are upset by any semblance of joy and modernity. We have to take sides. In the end, Muslims will be the losers if they don’t wake up.”

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