In Good Faith

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You may do so in good faith, however referring to us muslims who are not part of a terrorist organisation as 'moderate muslims' is just wrong. There can be no such thing. You are either a muslim or not. Surely if there is any meaning to our existence it must involve spiritual aspiration of a kind. Our spiritual growth is determined only by how we choose to allow the process to develop in our journey through this life. We each abide by our faith through personal and individual intuitiveness and either allow our faith to guide and refine our spirituality or then allow our ego to pollute it.

If you wish to label people of a religious faith according to the degree of their piety you would have to have Xray vision of a kind, for to judge them by how they appear is neither here nor there.

Furthermore, 'extremism' does not automatically denote terrorism, and neither should the term 'fundamentalism' do so. For what may appear to be a very strong adherence to the core of religious practices, IF it is not warped, IF it includes the fundamental reliance upon His Mercy and Grace, IF it exists parallel to the belief that religion begins with doing onto others as you would have done onto yourself, then with all these IFs and perhaps a few more, then it is merely to be regarded as a form of prayer, a form of surrender to the One and Only, a form of being true to how a person perceives their own faith. With all IFs in place, the only automatic assumption that could take place would be the following: There can be no coercion~ there can be no judgement and there can be absolutely no terrorism involved.

... "and he said 'as for what you are doing today; fighting for political power, fighting for dominion, this is NOT what the Qur-an is talking about'" ~ Now we have young people joining the 'khilafa' from everywhere... this is madness, complete insanity~and the prophet pbuh addresses this concept with: 'WHAT are you? The 'what' not 'who' deliberately meant to imply 'no intellect'~
 'DON'T BE FOOLED BY THEIR PIETY'
If you look at the verses where Allah grants permission for you to fight.. permission, a licence, not something 'desirable' ~ 'If you're confused then you haven't studied this religion, and if you think this has anything to do with the truth, then you definitely haven't studied this religion.'
If you want to understand those verses and see what they infer and refer to then watch this video. 
CONTAINS EXPLANATORY PHRASES IN ENGLISH
The amount of times we are asked why does it say that in the Qur-an, all taken out of context... this provides the considered response: 
 The Crisis of ISIS: A Prophetic Prediction | Sermon by Hamza Yusuf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJo4B-yaxfk#t=1106 
The above, an analysis of amazing revelations through the Qur-an... giving so much insight to any inklings of intuitive responses we may all have.

And here is an MEM article... food for thought: 
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/14126-demonising-the-brotherhood-will-not-help-in-the-fight-against-isis

youtube link submitted via Facebook by Shereen Abdel Fattah and Mahmoud Ibrahim

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