We keep being told most Muslims are moderate.
Fine. Then a question:
Why are the comment sections under every post on social media criticizing radical Islam, sharia, honor violence, Jew-hatred and Islamist terror… empty of Muslim voices defending Western values?
Where are the moderate Muslims standing up publicly to defend the societies that took them in? Where are the open letters? The mass condemnations? The Muslim-led marches against Hamas, against forced marriage, against the death penalty for leaving Islam?
Silence isn’t moderation. Silence is consent.
If “the vast majority” truly rejects political Islam, the West should be drowning in their voices.
We’re not. Ask why.
Let me give you my take.
The moderates stay silent because the price of speaking is too high. The Muslims who actually do stand up, Hamed Abdel-Samad, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Yasmine Mohammed, Magdi Allam, live with death threats, police protection, exile. Not from the West. From their own.
That tells us two things:
First, “moderate” Islam doesn’t have authority in its own house. The radicals do. And they enforce silence with violence.
Second, we in the West have built a myth of a moderate majority we never hear from, because we need to believe in it.
It’s easier than facing the truth…that the ideology we’ve invited in by the millions can’t be reformed from within, as long as the faith itself punishes reformation with death.
The silence isn’t accidental. It’s systemic.
And until we dare say that out loud, we aren’t protecting the moderates. We’re betraying them.