Warning Muslims: Infidels Are Starting to Get It

Challenge for moderate American Muslims: Tell us who your leading cleric in America is and what his position is on violence and rioting. Sooner is better than later.

Molten Eagle posted this cartoonized photo of Ibrahim Hooper Wednesday, February 08, 2006. Hooper (born Douglas Hooper) is the National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR.

Our Liberal press will not make this distinction yet, but American leaders are starting to understand the gist of moderate Muslim absence from the debate on radical Islamic violence and rioting -certainly, by their very silence, they are condoning the violence of their brothers because that is what popular Muslim clerics have been doing in their Mosques -condoning it, or at best, remaining silent. Can you name a single, Imam, Mullah or Muslim scholar who is popular with Muslims and not radical? Neither can Muslims. Besides the fact that our journalists are such objective reporters (just kidding), wonder why?

Vigilis is certainly not alone in this conclusion. From Gus Van Horn today, in Curse of the Moderates:
"A while back, I encountered this excellent Charles Krauthammer column (Feb. 10, 2006) which made the point that much of what passes for "moderation" in the Moslem world and the leftist intelligentsia is not, in fact the attitude of political tolerance which we would hope for."

UPDATE: And, this (H/T Chapomatic), quoting from the Middle East Media Research Institute, "... lying and misleading are prominent Muslim Brotherhood characteristics, and that the principle of taqiyya (hiding one’s true belief out of fear that it will be repressed), which is common amongst the Shi’a for historical reasons, is found in all streams of Islam. “Today, this method [of doublespeak and taqiyya] is used in the heart of the Western democracies, not due to fear of exposure, but in order to continue the secret advance [towards defined goals] without worrying anyone." February 17, 2006

The Danish Cartoon debacle was good for America. The veil is now stripped from so-called "moderate Muslims". Who are official, authoritative voices of Islam?

answer: Only popular clerics - not ordinary Muslims and certainly not apologists like Ibrahim Hooper. Are we starting to see a problem set? Here is what moderate, Americam Muslims want (per Ibrahim Hooper):

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education." source

How will education apply? By helping muslims immigrate to the U.S., by encouraging Americans to convert to Islam and by propagating like rabbits (Islam allows multiple wives) -all of which are intended to create a significant bloc of Islamic voters in America. Their number (an estimated 7 million) now is nearly sufficient to swing a national election, perhaps a clue to why Republicans have been pussyfooting with them.

Do not be worried, however, now that the truth is out there. If anyone should worry, it is perhaps the turn of American moderate Muslims.