There have to be individuals who mean good, are good, and want to do good. Perhaps also ones who hate their own religion and culture, but feel imprisoned by it, and are too wimpy or for some other reasons unable to leave.
But the big problem is of course that taqiyya principle. That it is or can be permissible for them to lie to people of other faiths if they deem it necessary, maybe just to protect themselves, but more worrisome to the rest of us, to spread Islam.
Because that kind of means that you can never fully trust any of them, no matter how friendly they may seem, or how much they seem to be on your side. Because that trustworthy seeming person may also be a fundamentalist enemy who is just pretending to be something else. A wolf in sheep's clothing, or even a wolf pretending to be a sheepdog.
Now of course that may be possible with about anybody, but since that principle exist in their faith and culture it makes it more likely you are going to meet Muslim individuals or groups who are more likely lying to you when you are not of their faith.
And it doesn't matter either even if a lot of Muslims may think that it only means that they can lie to protect themselves in circumstances where their faith may put them at risk because there are also going to be others of their faith who take that possible broader meaning - that they can always lie to non-Muslims in matters which might make it possible to spread their faith. Like maybe in a situation in which they are trying to take over in a country that isn't yet a Muslim one.
So yes. In general just that one principle alone implies pretty strongly that you should not allow a large Muslim minority, much less in numbers that might turn them into any kind of majority, into your country.
As individuals... well, yes. There may be some hope that among those individuals may one day be some future Muslim Martin Luther who will manage to start some sort of rebellion to revise their faith towards some more tolerant version, or even if not that, at least something that will cause more schism among them so that they will use more energy to fight each other, not us...
Just keep the numbers allowed in small enough that none of them can just isolate themselves into living mostly among their own. Small enough that as individuals they always have to adjust to our cultures at least to some extent, and be fully exposed to the ideas of the western cultures, especially including the good ideas.
There have to be individuals who mean good, are good, and want to do good. Perhaps also ones who hate their own religion and culture, but feel imprisoned by it, and are too wimpy or for some other reasons unable to leave.
But the big problem is of course that taqiyya principle. That it is or can be permissible for them to lie to people of other faiths if they deem it necessary, maybe just to protect themselves, but more worrisome to the rest of us, to spread Islam.
Because that kind of means that you can never fully trust any of them, no matter how friendly they may seem, or how much they seem to be on your side. Because that trustworthy seeming person may also be a fundamentalist enemy who is just pretending to be something else. A wolf in sheep's clothing, or even a wolf pretending to be a sheepdog.
Now of course that may be possible with about anybody, but since that principle exist in their faith and culture it makes it more likely you are going to meet Muslim individuals or groups who are more likely lying to you when you are not of their faith.
And it doesn't matter either even if a lot of Muslims may think that it only means that they can lie to protect themselves in circumstances where their faith may put them at risk because there are also going to be others of their faith who take that possible broader meaning - that they can always lie to non-Muslims in matters which might make it possible to spread their faith. Like maybe in a situation in which they are trying to take over in a country that isn't yet a Muslim one.
So yes. In general just that one principle alone implies pretty strongly that you should not allow a large Muslim minority, much less in numbers that might turn them into any kind of majority, into your country.
As individuals... well, yes. There may be some hope that among those individuals may one day be some future Muslim Martin Luther who will manage to start some sort of rebellion to revise their faith towards some more tolerant version, or even if not that, at least something that will cause more schism among them so that they will use more energy to fight each other, not us...
Just keep the numbers allowed in small enough that none of them can just isolate themselves into living mostly among their own. Small enough that as individuals they always have to adjust to our cultures at least to some extent, and be fully exposed to the ideas of the western cultures, especially including the good ideas.