In Pakistan Today, AbidUllah Jan explains that the distinction between “moderate” Islam and “fundamental” Islam is an invention of the West, for the purpose of dividing Muslims: Undoing Islam With Prefixes. (Hat tip: DP111.)

Thanks for the clarification, AbidUllah.

Others doubt intentions of the self-proclaimed moderates because they openly ask for Washington’s support. They so openly advertise positions for analysts, etc. for the CIA and the books written by non-Muslims claim that the CIA bankrolled “moderate” Islam. All this hurts because there is no moderate and immoderate Islam at all.

The US promotion of such prefixes for the sake of divisions among Muslims would fail because Muslims read and reflect upon the following verses of the Holy Qur’an. “It is He Who has named you Muslims,” (22:78). “Lo! I am of those who are Muslims.” (41:33) “I am of those who bow in Islam”? “Bear witness that we are Muslims,” (3:64) and “Our Lord! make of us Muslims,” (2:128), show that Allah has called his prescribed way of life (Deen) as Islam and named its followers as Muslims without any prefixes.

Joseph S. Nye Jr concludes: “If the United States is going to win the struggle against terrorism, our leaders are going to have to learn to better combine soft and hard power into ”smart power,“ as we did in the Cold War. We have done it before; we can do it again.” What does it mean?

It means the misconception that there is no communist today and there will be no Muslim tomorrow. No matter how some opportunists among Muslims jump on the bandwagon of “moderatism” for there personal gains, the US will never be able to win this war on Islam because it is not communism and the artificial divisions among Muslims would not last long. The yet-to-establish credibility of the so-called moderates is fast eroding in the eyes of majority of Muslims, who know what it takes to be a “moderate” from the American point of view.