Jordan does not excuse Muslim atrocities. Why should we?

Enough is enough. It is time to speak out. “Islam is innocent” is an incomplete sentence. Introspection is needed, for, if we shy away from reality, the alternative will be more images like those we witnessed last Tuesday night, when brave Lt. Muath Al Kasasbeh was burnt to death in a cage. The inconvenient truth that is overlooked or willfully ignored by apologists for the indefensible is the fact that Wahabism, the cult of mediaeval austerity founded by Ibn Abdul Wahab (1703-1792), has over the last half century been exported to every mosque and school throughout the Muslim world until it completely enveloped mainstream Sunni Islamic teachings. Wahabism has entirely replaced, and become, Sunni Islam; the two cannot be told apart anymore. Some Wahabist teachings, which have permeated the air we breathe in the Muslim world, are simply irreconcilable with decent human values, especially the ones that declare that every non-Wahabist is a disposable body whose bloodletting is unproblematic. So enough of this burial of our heads in the sand. It has become tiresome to keep hearing the unproductive cliché that Islam is innocent after each atrocity committed by devout fanatics who did nothing except execute the exact letter of their textbooks, which order them to slaughter the infidels.

The above text was excerpted from an editorial appearing in The Jordan Times which should be read in its entirety. It's remarkable that President Abdel Al Sisi of Egypt and the Jordan Times can speak with more candor about the defects of Islam than President Obama and the New York Times. It is tiresome to keep hearing the same unproductive cliches.