“There are No Moderate Islamists…” & "The West deserves this"

There are no moderate Islamists that I have seen. There are ordinary Muslims who are living decent lives, and there are terrorists or would-be terrorists.

So says Mamoun Fandy a senior fellow at Rice University Baker Institute specializing in Middle East and Islamic politics.

His research focus is the politics of the Arab World, terrorism and radical Islamic politics, and regional security issues in the Middle East.

I suspect that the religiously tolerant Americans are in for a big surprise. We seem to have an expectation that other religions will accept us just because we are accepting of them.

Fandy states,

I have talked with many Muslims, especially in the West, who in public condemn violent acts but in private conversations say, "The West deserves this." In public, they will say it is a revenge for Palestine and Iraq, but in private I hear blind hatred, a virus that is taking over too many Muslim minds.

Read Fandy’s bio here and what he says here.

Hat Tip to Michael Medved.