A Muslim Response to the Freedom House Investigation of Radical Islam in America

A web site called, Free Muslims Against Terrorism, has published a response to the recent investigative report that discovered radical Wahhabi-inspired literature, published in and by Saudi Arabia, being displayed and distributed in a number of major mosques across the United States (see my previous posts on this matter here and here).

In spite of the fact that the MSM has virtually ignored the report the writer of this response takes aim at those who have tried to write it off as one more example of "Muslim bashing." Read the following excerpts and then click the link and read the whole thing.

Muslim-bashing. That's the accusation many of my fellow Muslims now hurl at the various news outlets for their news stories about a Freedom House investigation that found extremist Islamic literature in some leading American mosques. This name-calling is unfortunate.

Since 1980, the Muslim world has experienced an enormous growth of religious fanaticism and extremism the likes of which Islam has not experienced in its 1,400 years. This movement continues to grow because of the spread of who've Islam; a sect that used to number no more than one percent of all Muslims, but because of money and technology, has spread to more areas around the world.

Extremism is also growing because of an ideology called political Islam. The basis of political Islam is the rejection of secularism and the belief that the mosque and the state should be completely intertwined. Unfortunately, history has shown that when politics and religion are completely intertwined, disaster results.

Most importantly, extremism in the Muslim world continues to grow because most Muslims are unwilling to admit that we have a problem with extremism and support for terrorism. The response by Muslims to the Freedom House report is not the first time that the Muslim community resorted to denial and accusations of Muslim-bashing when presented with evidence of Muslim culpability.