A Danish/Syrian Politician wrote this as a debate on a Danish news paper homepage
Have used google-translate and corrected where needed-
Sorry for any "weird" sentence
Author Naser Khader
"Moderate Muslims have a shared responsibility for terror
We Muslims can not absolve ourselves of responsibility for that Islam is in deep crisis and that it is a duty to fight the dark forces
After the terrorist attack in Nice, where a Tunisian man killed at least 84 people and injured many more, I wrote an update on Facebook
"If it is Islam, I will not be a Muslim."
Note the word 'if'. Time of writing the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The details are not yet known.
The French government has called it terrorism. I do not write with my update that all Muslims are terrorists, or that we are at war with Islam. But as usual it will be read as such by many Muslims and other critics of my person. It is predictable, and that's exactly why Islam is in deep crisis.
My update was written deliberately, and I've said it before. It is not enough anymore to express sympathy with the victims and the bereaved. It is not enough to declare that we must stand together. It is not enough to establish that we are at war against lunatics and terrorists, not against Islam. Updates of the character, I and many other written so many, it has been clichés in a progressively terrorist packed everyday
I'm tired of clichés and platitudes. It is important that we step into character as a civilized society and goes a step further
Responses to my brief update did not fail. There was plenty of support, but also the opposite. Most interesting were the reactions of people with Muslim names, and it went from the total disclaimer - 'it has nothing to do with Islam, "" he is not a Muslim', 'this is a wrong reading of the Koran, "etc.. - For perfidious comments about my person, which includes the usual words like 'whore', 'traitor' and 'infidels
Examples exhibits with sad accuracy why Islam is in deep crisis. And they demonstrate comment for comment that moderate Muslims have a huge responsibility for the European countries continued production of Islamists
Why all this simpleton good understanding of Islamist terrorism? Why is Islam protected whenever committed terror in France, Denmark or Bangladesh? Do we hear an outcry over the defense of Islam, coming by reflex?
But it is convenient not to take a stand and say that it has nothing to do with Islam. It aggravates the only problem. As my colleague Majid Nawaz from Muslim Reform Movement has said in connection with the Nice terror:
"People say already that the Nice terrorist were not believers. Please stop. The good intentions about Muslims only makes the problem worse. It's just as bad as saying that it has "everything" to do with Islam. (...) This "something" to do with Islam. "
When you read my Facebook comment tracks, Islam apparently has to be
spared at any cost. It is almost a motto of some. Therefore, one would rather smear people like me rather than to distance themselves from terrorists. And it refuses to introspect and realize that Islam has some problems that only moderate Muslims can overcome. It must come from ourselves. But when did you last hear the same people call a terrorist for 'whore', 'traitor' or 'infidel'?
The key is the recognition that an internal problem is not the same as saying that all Muslims are terrorists. Unfortunately, terrorists are often Islamists."
The article or his debate was longer, but I thought this was enough
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