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?There are no Muslim moderates?


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
May 12, 2004

What do Yasser Arafat, PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah all have in common? At one time or another the West has insisted all are Muslim “moderates.”

But according to one Pakistani Islamic author, that term was contrived by the West in order to create divisions in the Muslim world.

All Muslims are moderates by virtue of being Muslims, and not according to how their political positions correspond to Washington’s interpretation of the Quran, wrote Abidullah Jan in Pakistan Today.

Christian Zionist leader Jan Willem van der Hoeven further clarified that not only were there no Muslim “moderates,” but in fact all Muslims are “fundamentalists.”

The US and Europe have traditionally attempted to portray Muslim “fundamentalists” as a disconnected Islamic minority whose actions do not reflect the beliefs of their co-religionists.

No ‘moderates’

“A Muslim cannot be a Muslim without being moderate,” wrote Abidullah Jan in the May 7 edition of Pakistan Today .

“He has, however, to be moderate by virtue of being a Muslim,” and not by virtue of how his political positions line up with Washington’s interpretation of the Quran.

According to Islam, “moderate” is simply the opposite of “evil conduct,” which in no way corresponds to what the West views as “evil conduct,” Jan insists.

Allah called the followers of Islam Muslims “without any prefixes,” and ultimately “there is no moderate and immoderate Islam at all,” the author of several books on the subject writes.

The US is promoting such prefixes “for the sake of divisions among Muslims,” and has succeeded in causing many to jump on the “bandwagon of ‘moderation.’”

But the scheme is doomed to fail as Muslims turn to the Quran and realize they are all the same, says Jan.

Muslims are fundamentalists

Not only are there no Muslim “moderates,” it is actually incorrect to call only some Muslims “fundamentalists” as if all other Muslims oppose their practices, wrote Jan Willem van der Hoeven in a July 2002 op-ed piece.

Van der Hoeven, who is director of the International Christian Zionist Center, pointed out that not one US-labeled “moderate” Muslim leader ever shunned PLO chief Yasser Arafat even when he was widely recognized as the chief of global terrorism.

“Why not? Because it would have been against the teachings of Islam to have stood up against Arafat's terror,” wrote Van der Hoeven.

The Quran repeatedly exhorts Muslims to “arrest,” “besiege,” and “lie in ambush everywhere” for “unbelievers.”

Seize them and put them to death wherever you find them, kill them wherever you find them, seek out the enemies of Islam relentlessly . (Sura 4:90)

Fight them until Islam reigns supreme. (Sura 2:193)

Cut off their heads, and cut off the tips of their fingers. (Sura 8:12)

Allah threatens the Muslim who does not make war on the “unbelievers” with death. (Sura 9:39)

So rather than renounce the dictates of their faith, “moderate” Muslims “make statements of peace and tolerance” for the consumption of an unsuspecting and gullible West, Van der Hoeven explained.

Such statements act to “disguise for the time being [Islam’s] real intent and nature:to conquer the world by stealth or terror till all the world will finally come under the dominion of Allah and Islam.”

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