Islamic moderates understand that the mosque is offensive and inflammatory and unnecessary.
Islamic moderates issue fatwas against those who murder their daughters, mutilate their wives and persuade the sons that they can have orgasms after they are dead and dismembered.
Islamic moderates understand that the prophet’s spiritual ancestors, Jews and Christians, are coequal in God’s eyes and deserve a place in the sun as coequals.
Islamic moderates understand that dhimmitude was an accident of mistranslated Koranic transcriptions and now make amends.
Islamic moderates disband the suicide warriors of the current wars.
Islamic moderates grieve for and with the family of Daniel Pearl.
Islamic moderates make peace between Shia and Sunni and between Islam and Hindu and Jew and Christian.
Islamic moderates understand that psychopaths in the name of Islam commit mass murder and Islamic moderates tithe themselves to make financial amends as may be possible to victims of psychotics in Islam’s name.
Islamic moderates have added to NYC subway posters – “if you see something say something” – by adding this in Arabic and Farsi and all the other languages that Muslims speak, and added “Muhammad wills it.”
Islamic moderates say:
“We can go places where secular authority cannot go/
western secularism has been good to us/
the only place on earth where Muslims do not kill Muslims is in western secularism/
support western secularism/
if you see something say something.”
I hope this helps.
This voice, from wherever it came, needs to be more prominent. It is precisely the bridge, the gesture of Muslim-American civil reciprocity that can bind us, that can once again validate the unique greatness of American diversity.
Kendrick Macdowell is a lawyer and writer in Washington, D.C.

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