Most Muslims Are Not Fundamentalists

Found this quote to be insightful.... the difference between Islam and Islamism.. and how speaking in the west is so often misused as fuel for some peoples anti-islam agendas......  I live in an Islamic community with seven mosques in earshot,  and one fifty feet from my living room door. I live among a kind people and community, despite differences... But there is present radical elements,  with fully veiled women, from head to toe, with mere eye openings. Women have it hard under this fundamentalist element.

"From the Sahel to the Caucasus, a creeping “Islamization” narrows social space, assaults women’s rights, and transfigures lifestyles. Everywhere— from Montreal to Dearborn to Paris to Grozny to East Jerusalem— women of Muslim heritage are under pressure to cover more and more of their skin, their hair, their very beings. To disappear. The mere physical manifestation of their existence is now a provocation. After the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Tunisian fundamentalists used social media to call for the first Tunisian woman ever to win a medal, Habiba Ghribi, to be stripped of her citizenship for being a “naked, shameless woman.” 21 (She raced in the same shorts and midriff-baring top worn today by most women runners.) In such a global environment, one must speak out against Muslim fundamentalists for the sake of basic human rights. It is a moral imperative. But, when doing so in the United States, one must also try to do this in a way that will not be hijacked by those with anti-Muslim agendas. Islam and Islamism are not the same thing. The three extra letters make a huge difference. Being a devout believer has nothing to do with purveying political Islam. The vast majority of Muslims are not fundamentalists, though of course too many are. (Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here : Untold Stories From The Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism. Karima Bennoune)