Wow.

YQ: “Well I guess 20 years ago when I was a teenager I definitely would have self identified as a Salafi Muslim but over the course of the last decade or so I’ve kind of sort of grown out of the movement now.”

Interviewer: “What does that mean, ‘grown out of the movement’?”

YQ: “I found the movement is not as intellectual stimulating as I would like it to be….“

Their message: Islam is compatible with an anti-big government or libertararian philosophy. They do not denounce sharia, but defend it within a libertarian framework.

“Our approach is different,” says Coley. “We use principles within sharia like maqasid (primary goals) to show their connection with John Locke’s principles of life, liberty and property.”

Ani Zonneveld over at Aslan Media nails it in this blogpost about the Las Vegas-ing of Mecca and the complete lack of attention or protest from the Muslims who always claim to protect the Prophet’s honor:

The protesters who are always so eager to defend Prophet Muhammad’s honor are silent. I’d like to ask those protestors: Why are you not protesting in front of the Saudi Embassies as you did in front of the American Embassies in protest of the video “Innocence of Muslims”? Surely the destruction of our holy sites is the mother of all insults!

As someone who made Hajj this year and came back several weeks ago, I can confirm first hand the shocking changes that are happening in Mecca and the complete disregard the Saudis seem to have for preserving and protecting holy sites and Islamic history.

So where is the Muslim rage?!

The protection of holy sites is just the beginning. What about the treatment of ethnic non-Saudi’s in Saudi Arabia? Thousands of Muslims who have lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for generations are legally 3rd class citizens.

From Sophia Azeb:

When an avowed white supremacist opens fire on civilians at a gurudwara in Wisconsin, is this called “WHITE RAGE”? Is it American rage? First World rage? When Anders Breivik, who cites Ayaan Hirsi Ali in his horrifying manifesto, sets bombs in buildings and kills teenagers attending camp, is this European rage? Christian rage? How about this weekend’s NATO airstrike, which killed eight women and girls on Sunday? Is this not also a war against women? And the United States going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Our nation’s unyielding support for apartheid Israel? The prospect of war with Iran? Are these acceptable forms of rage, when they are carried out by a powerful nation-state and loosely follow devolving interpretations of “the ideals of the rule of law”? When there are entire nations that have devoted so many billions of dollars over so many years to bring “democracy” and “civilization” to us, are we allowed to be angry? Robert Wright perhaps articulates this best in a piece for The Atlantic: “I’m not excusing any violence that American policies may have helped cause and I’m not blaming America. But when American policies have bad side effects, Americans need to talk about them.”