Behind the scenes of a world that has, through appeasement, allowed Islamists to infiltrate societies and threaten their very stability, an intense and mostly unreported struggle is taking place — a struggle within Islam itself.
That fight is over the soul of Islam. Across the Muslim world, thinkers, clerics, and ordinary believers are asking: What kind of Islam do we really want?
Do we want the Islam of Shiite Iran and the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood — ruled by uneducated, power-hungry preachers and politicians? Or do we wish to return to a tolerant Islam — one truly based on peace and coexistence?
When the father of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini, declared in 1979, “I say let this land burn… provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world,” he gave voice to a grim philosophy of domination, war, and submission to a ruler’s idea of God. It was a worldview built on conquest, not compassion.
