Let’s not be mealy mouthed for once.  We must have the guts to call a spade a spade.  And by that I mean the toxic spread of Wahhabi Islam that is wreaking havoc in the civilized world.  Ironically these medieval psychopaths are adopting the same methods of modernity that they are raging against to propagate their diabolical worldview.  Even the very word Islam means total and complete submission in Arabic.  Now it has come to signify an unquestionable submission to the forces of unreason and bigotry.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not an Islamophobe.  My love and respect for the Muslim community is no different from my love and respect for any other community and since I am not a religious minded anyway, it doesn’t matter to me in the least.

I don’t want to get into a Freudian analysis of the alienation some sections of the Muslim community be experiencing and I also don’t wish to dig out that old chestnut ‘’root cause’’.  My contention is that every other organized religion has undergone some sort of reform over the centuries but only the mainstream of Islam that is caught in a time warp.  We’ve all been witness to the kind of barbarism being perpetrated by a lot of crazed people in the name of Islam and the prophet.  By raining death and destruction on the innocent people, from Nigeria to France and from Australia to Kenya, they want to establish a utopia of their delusion.  And what could be more abominable than the fact that they derive sustenance from Islam for their murderous ideology. 

The so called ‘’silent majority’’ have done a great disservice to their religion by remaining quite on the growing fundamentalism among the community in general and the young in particular.  Every time something horrible occurs, they will indemnify their condemnation with all kinds of qualifications and rationalizations to guard against any future backlash.  A little more courage and outspokenness on the part of the moderate sections of the Muslim community against all kinds of vile practices and atrocities committed in the name of their religion would be a good beginning.