Dawa or "outreach" by muslims is used to "recruit" or otherwise convert non-muslims to islam much like the Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Lutherans... Christians, Buddhists, etc. would do. It's a relatively benign journey during the "recruitment" period. Hyping the wonders of the their "religion", the novelty of it, all things good about it and so on. All appears good to the recent convert. Life seems to have purpose, flow, harmony. But the dawa doesn't end there. Not yet. Not for the "religion of peace".
Dawa at the next level applies to current muslims, those that many of you seemingly refer to as "moderate" muslims. Dawa in the latter respect encourages and in fact, insists that those who are muslims take on a more direct, more assertive role in their faith.
It encourages and quite frankly demands a much more radical participation in the cult of islam. Hence, once accepted into the muslim faith the journey for the "convert" continues. The next step beyond acceptance will most likely be the radicalization of the convert at some point in time. That given, all muslims are subject to dawa, radicalization (however extreme or slight) at some point in their lives.
Dawa's ultimate goal "is to destroy the political institutions of a free society and replace them with strict sharia." or so I've read and/or been told.
In our collective rush to accuse one another of being "intolerant" and "unaccepting" of our muslim "friends" we've effectively played into their dawa theme. By applying our political correctness we've become more susceptible to ignoring "the cultivation of Muslim hate speech and supremacist attitudes towards non-Muslims".
In essence we've enabled them and are becoming more complicit in their ability to cultivate that hatred they harbor for us.
At least, that's my take on things.
IMHO
Much thanks to Judith Bergman and The Gatestone Institute for the information and link!
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