Islams Challenge I have read the Quran, and refere to it almost daily to search for answers. I have looked at every text on fighting. Quran does not allow the killing of non-combatants, nor deliberate suicides as part of fighting attacks.

Yes, we Muslims are and willing to enter Modernity, but within our Islamic value system.

The fundamental gap in the western adoption of modernity is the absense of absolute morality and ethics. everything has been rendered to expediency and nationalist interests. Nothing is sacred before nationalism and materialism.

The Muslim clerics and the misled masses are stuck in the dreams of past glory, and the intelligentsia is too ready to adopt godless secularism. Maybe the events of Sept. 11th 2001 will force some of us to search for and create a proper synthesis between Islam and modernism. The first step will be to distinguish what is religious in Islam and what is centuries of cultural infiltrations.

Who is going to do it. Thinking Muslims living in the west.