Originally Posted by
Burney
This represents a fundamental (no pun intended) failure to understand the difference between Islam and Christianity. There is no 'moderate' Islam. There's only Islam. In our post-enlightenment society, Christianity has had to adapt to the increasing secularity of society by toning down the whole 'religion' thing so as not to frighten us all off. Islam has gone through no such process of adaptation.
A quick look at Islam should tell you that its tenets are at odds with post-enlightenment western society - indeed, the fact that we're having this conversation is proof of the fact. If you look at our society, it is we who are adapting to accommodate Islam, not the other way around. Islam is staying exactly the same while we tacitly assimilate Sharia courts into our legal systems; accept things like the Burqa, accept the innate sexism and homophobia of Islam; accept first cousin marriage and its deleterious effects on the children; turn a blind eye to forced marriage and FGM and generally spend huge amounts of time worrying about whether muslims will be offended by our norms while never stopping to ask whether we ought to be offended by theirs.
If you think this is integration, you're out of your mind. We're abandoning fundamental principles of our way of life while they are doing precisely fvck all to meet us half way.