US: New DVD Whitewashes Islamism

Islamist apologist Omid Safi, a professor of religion at UNC-Chapel Hill, described the DVD as follows:

It’s a full-throated defense of the tradition in which Islam is presented as the perfect egalitarian, scientific, pluralistic, modern religion that doesn’t have the flaws of all the other religions. … It remains to be seen if it will be seen as preaching to the choir, or if it will succeed in persuading people outside the Muslim community.

Apparently, Professor Safi believes that a video proselytizing to the general public, which proclaims Islam not to “have the flaws of all the other religions” and declares scientific doctrines like evolutionism wrong, is somehow preaching to the choir and constitutes an appropriate American message. He ignores the fact that there is a diversity of theological interpretations in Islam, including the varying schools of thought within Sunnism and varying sects within Islam, including Alevism, Sufism, and Shiism. Safi would have been more accurate if he had stated that the DVD portrays Islam as interpreted by the political Salafi movement. He then would have also had to concede that some Muslims would find such evangelism wrongheaded and a misrepresentation of the diversity of thought amongst Muslims here in the U.S. It is precisely this type of Islamist supremacism that prevents real reform today against radical Islam and marginalizes any Muslim thought that does not toe the line of political Islam or the Salafist movement.

via Pajamas Media » The Fog Is Not Lifting: New DVD Whitewashes Islamism. via Right Side News.

Watch the video here.