Some Muslims feel about their Fundamentalists the way I feel about ours

Why are we Muslims so self-destructive?
Today, dissenting Muslims have to wear virtual body armour in case someone decides to take offence
Published: 24 September 2007

I fast for some days every week of this month of Ramadan. At an ifthar (breaking of fast) gathering last week, Rahim, a handsome young Muslim doctor and I chatted about this and that, and the end of our world: "Do you think refined and educated Muslims will survive this century? Or will we become extinct? I feel I don't know who I am any more. My parents, too, say the same. Barbaric Muslims are stronger than us, more stupid and ignorant, but stronger, you know."

You hear these outpourings of grief and hopelessness a lot these days. Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion, wrote the American novelist Philip Wylie. Ill-educated, volatile, easily led, despised by millions, Muslims the world over are falling into that void, into oblivion. Some are and will be annihilated by external foes and enemies within, including the demon cheerleaders inside the heads of suicide bombers, but many more will be consumed by their own terror of the modern world.

From The Independent (UK) ...

My comment: You think that somehow their radicals are more "over the top" than ours? You're wrong. The only difference is that our fundamentalists have had to deal with the rule of law, secular law ... a tradition that's been with us since the Magna Carta in 1215 while they have lived in countries where laws are based on religious texts (Sharia Law).

If you like what you see in the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia and throughout the northern parts of Africa ... support your local evangelical who wants the Ten Commandments mounted in the court house, who wants religious instruction taught as a regular part of the school curriculum. Support your local born-again activist and they'll see that this country looks just like all those places subjected to Sharia Law.

It's been said before ... be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

Here's a little more about how a religious law court works in real practice.