The Vast Majority of Muslims are Good, but...

The vast majority of Muslims are good. The trouble we're having is with Islamists, who impose Islam upon others and who aim to create a Caliphate with Sharia Law, either outside their host country or within the host country. The means to achieve the Caliphate includes "terrorism", or the killing of innocents.

But we shoudn't leave the good Muslims alone. They have a role to play with Islamists.

The "other" Muslims also cannot shelter behind their "correct" version of Islam, blaming Muslim atrocities on a minority of Muslims holding an "incorrect" version.

This argument from Muslim apologists is the fact that the things Westerners find atrocious in the Islamic culture, behaviour, prectises, beliefs, are the peculiarity of only a small misguided minority.

Sadly, this is not the case. They are both peculiarities of Islam, as a whole. What both views share is a common religion at the fundamental level.

The horrific behaviours seen of some members of Muslim immigrants or their progeny may seem part of a minority group, but their "warped" behaviours derive from their understanding of their ethnic group's "religion". Bad Islam comes from good Islam.

Genital mutilation, child marriage, honour killing, racism, cruel animal slaughter, bigamy, the killing of apostates, killing civilians for represnting a perceived enemy, are all the features of certain organised ethno-religious groups, NOT an individual's personal belief, nor all ehtno-religious groups.

It is enough that certain behaviours derive only from some groups that the group itself is partly to blame.

No Islamist terrorist derives their beliefs outside the Islamic religion they follow.

Mainstream religions are partly responsible for the relatively wayward interpretations of some members, by not clarifying for all members the true or correct interpretation.

If a religion promotes the supremacy of religious belief above reason, there should be no surprise when irrational interpretations of jihad produce mass killing of civilians.

It should be clear to clerics and ideologists that an ambiguous teaching may yield a violent interpretation. The solution is clearly to define the teaching, its scope and limitations.

This clarity does not happen.

Mainstream religious members feel they can sit back and relax that they simply have the correct interpretation and hold no responsibility for the actions of other members, who got it wrong.

In this sense, there seems to be more than one Islam. But Muslims disagree. Both are wrong. There are many interpretations of ONE religion. Some argue, but mine is the correct one. The trouble is, they all say that. So which one is right? They are both correct.

Muslim apologists continue to claim there's is the correct interpretation, so their religion is not the problem.

Problem solved?