Obama and Muslim community may diverge on the kind of reformation Islam needs 

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Obama Kind of, Sort of Discovers Muslim Terrorism
by Bruce Thornton
December 8, 2015

This brings us to the core of Obama’s delusion, one alas indulged by many Republicans who should know better. He wants these “moderate” mainstream Muslims “to speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.” Here we go again with the “highjacking” of the “religion of peace” excuse. Sometimes this trope is accompanied by a call for a “reformation” of Islam. The fact is, of course, that “reformation” in Islam has always meant a return to the pure Islam of the “rightly guided caliphs” under whom Islam went on to conquer two mighty empires and occupy a third of Europe…This history will not surprise anyone even casually knowledgeable about the doctrines of Islam, which for all the “children of Abraham” nonsense are radically different from those of Judaism and Christianity. READ MORE

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