The reality is, not all practitioners of Islam fall into that group above. There are those that believe that Islam should not simply be a matter of personal faith, but a matter of legal rule, as evidenced by the actual Islamic Political Parties in various portions of the world. There are those that believe that many of those westernized values are anathema to their view of Islam and must be battled against. That believe their religion calls upon them to attack and kill those who disagree with them. That laws and customs such as thoughts dealing with apostasy, homosexuality, rape, and the rights of women prevalent in portions of the Islamic world are moral, just, and what should be the norm. It is true, those who seek violence as it relates to this fundamentalist form of islam is a minority, it is still a significant enough number of negatively impact this nation. Furthermore, what is often missed is that there is the grey area of those who do not wish to actively engage in the violence, but at the same time condone...either tacitly or explicitly...such things and share the same fundamentalist view.
There should be no "acceptance" or "tolerance" or "unity" to such adherants to Islam in terms of those seeking to enter this country. If you belonged to a Political Party that promotes and advocated for Political Islam, then that should reflect negatively upon your ability to enter this country just as it did for Communism.
If you are in this country, or coming to this country, and advocate or support the idea of Sharia being formalized in some fashion to the legal code, not be "accepted" or "tolerated". Especially as it relates to the portions of it that are extremely conflicting with Western Values, such a supporting making conversion to a new religion a capital offense,
as 86% of sharia supporters feel should occur in Egypt. Such a view should not be tolerated or accepted from someone looking to immigrate into this country.
If you're part of the
7% of Muslims in the US that believe suicide bombing to defend Islam is justified, you should not be tolerated, just as we should not tolerate those who think it's justified to attack abortion providers in gods name.
Much as there is often derision, attacking, and shaming of Mormons due to polygamy/child abuse, and towards fundamentalist Christians for denying their children healthcare to instead hope praying will cure their kid, so to does fundamentalist Islam deserve it as well for the mentality and belief system that still leads to honor killings like the
Said's and
Noor Al-Maleki.
This belief that we can not properly criticize, identify, and address the real issues that fundamentalist Islam poses to the west without discriminating against all Muslims or offending all muslims, is ridiculous. It is entirely possible to be tolerant and accepting of Muslims in a general sense, while at the same time properly identifying and dealing with the problems that exist. If westernized, reformed, and/or non-fundamentalist Muslims are "offended" because an entity referring to itself as the ISLAMIC State, which rules in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic law, and who's faith is used as justification for their actions is called "Islamic Extremists"...then that's on them. No one can inherently control what does or does not offend another person, and simply because someone is offended by something doesn't mean that offense is rational nor reasonable.
If I speak out against Pedophilia within the Catholic Church, I am not speaking out against ALL Catholics, or even ALL members of the church's hierarchy, but rather I'm speaking clearly regarding those that had a role in the pedophilia, the cover up, or who knowingly looked the other way. By and large Catholics seem to understand that, and non-Catholics, when seeing that discussion, immediately seem to understand the nuance. Yet for some reason that recognition of nuance and of directed comments goes out the window when talking about Extreme Islamists, with people assuming it is a broadscale condemnation of Islam or Muslims as a whole simply by using such terms.
