First, thanks for spelling my name correctly.

I'm reading a book called "The Trouble With Islam" by Irshad Manji. I really like her and am sorry she's a lesbian.

http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/

Manji has certainly prompted me to think about the present condition of Islam, as well as explained the historical causes for its troubles. She even wants to reform Islam using its own principle of Ijtihad.

However, visionaries like Manji are in short supply. Islam has been and continues to be a religion of rote, unquestioning obedience. It is, in essence, shut off.

I understand why moderate Muslims don't speak out, but their own cowardice or silence is also sealing their fate. Worldwide.

If the wackos that claim to speak for your religion continue to attack the West, I see a day not far off when we'll have no choice but to start dropping H-bombs. The entire world will burn to a cinder before the West is run under primitive and backwards Sharia laws.

Now before you go attacking me personally, ask yourself what it is your unique culture and religion offer? Islam doesn't play well with other religions, it is intolerant and antipodal to the human spirit. It certainly doesn't do women any favors.

While it is a legitimate pathway to Allah, even this lifelong quest is suffocated by a lack of intellectual freedom. Why should I bow down to those who aren't allowed to question their own holy book?

Do you think your rage is somehow more valid, because you claim to represent the will of Allah?

After you mentioned your personal beef with Israeli foot soldiers, I pretty much gave up trying to continue any dialogue. You're part of a decades-long problem with no clear-cut solution. In the 90s, didn't Israel offer to meet 98% of Arafat's demands and the slimeball still walked away from the deal? With "leaders" like those terrorists, you don't need enemies.

The world really is too small for anything but brotherhood...so when will Muslims wake up?

Actually, the two most recent books I've read on the subject are Irshad Manji's "The Trouble With Islam" and "The Age of Sacred Terror" by Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon. I've never read Ali. FGM is happening, and is even happening in the Sudanese immigrant community in Chicago. Women are being made incapable on deriving pleasure from sex, and it has nothing to do with the teachings of the Prophet as far as I can tell.