Why Do Even Decent, Well-Meaning Muslims Try To Whitewash Their Religion?
“I have been made victorious through terror.” – Mohammed, Founder of Islam IT’S CRAZY. Most Muslims pretend there is nothing about Islam that might inspire terrorism. I get letters from apparently sincere Muslims all the time who try to convince me that violent Jihadis have got it all wrong because Islam really is a religion of peace. This is understandable for people like my friend from Bosnia who has never read the Qur’an and only knows what his parents told him about his religion. But many of the people who write to me have obviously read the Qur’an and the Hadith, and some of them even know about the principle of abrogation (I’ve been asking them lately), and still they want me to stop saying unflattering things about Islam. How is this possible? And why are there so many of them? Why don’t they do the sensible thing and renounce Islam? Why aren’t there more apostates? It doesn’t make any sense. But I came across an experiment that shed a little light on the situation. I read about
