Majid Rafizadeh
§ It
is the fear of this violence, torture and death, wielded by extremist Muslims,
that keeps every person desperate to obey.
§ If
liberals are in favor of freedom of speech, why do they turn a blind eye to
Islamist governments such as Iran, which execute people for expressing their
opinion? And why do they not let people in the West express their opinion
without attacking them or even giving them the respect of hearing what they
have to say? They seem, in fact, like the autocratic people from whom I was
fleeing, who also did not want their simplistic, binary way of thinking to be
threatened by logic or fact.
§ As,
in Islam, one is not allowed to attack except to defend the prophet or Islam,
extremist Muslims need to keep finding or creating supposed attacks to make
themselves appear as victims.
§ Finally,
a short message to liberals might go: Dear Liberal, If you truly stand for
values such as peace, social justice, liberty and freedoms, your apologetic
view of radical Islam is in total contradiction with all of those values. Your
view even hinders the efforts of many Muslims to make a peaceful reformation in
Islam precisely to advance the those values.
If you had grown up, as I did,
between two authoritarian governments -- the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria
-- under the leadership of people such as Hafez al Assad, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, you would have seen your youth influenced by
two major denominations of Islam in the Muslim world: the Shia and the Sunni. I
studied both, and at one point was even a devout Muslim. My parents, who still
live in Iran and Syria, come from two different ethnic Muslim groups: Arab and
Persian.
You also would have seen how
the religion of Islam intertwines with politics, and how radical Islam rules a
society through its religious laws, sharia. You would have witnessed how
radical Islam can dominate and scrutinize people's day-to-day choices: in
eating, clothing, socializing, entertainment, everything.
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Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute, March 25, 2017 at 5:00 am
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