Douglas Murray here, people.
Are we losing the war for the soul of Islam?

As the proportion of Muslims rises in Britain and across the West, extremists are increasingly dominant. What is to be done?
“Extremists”, a war for the ‘soul of Islam?’ Â What to do, what to do?
You see, Douglas has been “studying and thinking about Islam for almost half his life”. And guess where he learned it from:
 I have been studying and thinking about Islam for almost half my life. I got a slight head start on much of the rest of the world thanks to a Sufi Muslim friend. From her I learned, in those pre-9/11 days, about the horrors of the Wahhabis and the Salafis, the Deobandis and the Khomeinists.
Holy smoke! So he learned his Sufi Islam from a Muslim female whose witness is only worth half of a man’s? Forgive me for thinking this bright and well publicised  British intellectual would crack open a Koran and Bukhari’s hadith and do some serious reading. But no, he learned it from his ‘Sufi friend’.
No wonder he’s confused.
And I heard about one thing in particular which I have since observed: how moderate movements in Islam have repeatedly lost out to the hardliners and how some of the most enlightened people you might meet can be trampled over by the most barbaric.
Good heavens, so Douglas Murray studied Islam for half his life and he still doesn’t get it?
Wahabis and Salafis are Sunni, and they make up 85% of the worlds muslims. They are the real Muslims who follow the scripture, and they are also the enforcers. They make sure that everyone submits.
Please, Douglas: stop the gibberish about the Sufis being ‘different’, they read the same Koran. And they have an atrocious  historical record to prove it.
But don’t take it from me, take it from sufi saint Al-Ghazali:
Below is what Al-Ghazali actually wrote about jihad, and the treatment of the vanquished non-Muslim dhimmi peoples (from the Wagjiz, written in 1101 A.D.):
…one must go on jihad (i.e., warlike razzias or raids) at least once a year…one may use a catapult against them [non-Muslims] when they are in a fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire to them and/or drown them…If a person of the Ahl al-Kitab [People of The Book – Jews and Christians, typically] is enslaved, his marriage is [automatically] revoked…One may cut down their trees…One must destroy their useless books. Jihadists may take as booty whatever they decide…they may steal as much food as they need…
…the dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle…Jews, Christians, and Majians must pay the jizya [poll tax on non-Muslims]…on offering up the jizya, the dhimmi must hang his head while the official takes hold of his beard and hits [the dhimmi] on the protruberant bone beneath his ear [i.e., the mandible]… They are not permitted to ostentatiously display their wine or church bells…their houses may not be higher than the Muslim’s, no matter how low that is. The dhimmimay not ride an elegant horse or mule; he may ride a donkey only if the saddle[-work] is of wood. He may not walk on the good part of the road. They [the dhimmis] have to wear [an identifying] patch [on their clothing], even women, and even in the [public] baths…[dhimmis] must hold their tongue…. 4 (Emphasis added.)
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