Who is anti-Muslim?

Robert Spencer, an American scholar poses this question and reply it on his website. It is interesting to read his scholarly arguments. He says that he exposed how jihad terrorists used core Islamic texts to justify their actions and recruit more terrorists, and it was the great challenge for those who identified themselves as peaceful or moderate Muslims to confront the elements of these texts that give rise to violence and repudiate them, not to deny that these elements exist as so many do today. Both Muslims and non-Muslims had to confront these elements of Islam and come up with constructive ways to deal with them, or jihad violence will only continue and increase. “The jihadists and their allies have used this effective little bit of mudslinging not only against me but against others such as Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson. But that doesn’t make it true….The facts are not really ‘pro-’ or ‘anti-’ anything; they are just the facts. If it is anti-Muslim to speak of them, so be it; but I don’t really think it is.” ” If jihadists use the Qur’an, Sunnah, and Islamic law to justify their violence, and I explain how they do it, I do not become anti-Muslim, any more than a scholar of the Hitler period becomes a Nazi if he writes about how the Nazis appealed to ordinary Germans. Contrary to the belief of many analysts today, it does the genuine moderate Muslims whom they profess to support no favors to gloss over or ignore these facts — the Qur’an’s statements on making war on non-Muslims, or Muhammad’s words and actions confirming and expanding upon them. Instead, any sincere Muslim reformers must be encouraged to speak openly about those elements of Islam, and to reject them as having any applicability in the modern world. No reform can come when everyone is pretending that no reform is necessary. You cannot fix what you will not admit is broken.” “Some time ago I said: ‘I would like nothing better than a flowering, a renaissance, in the Muslim world, including full equality of rights for women and non-Muslims in Islamic societies: freedom of conscience, equality in laws regarding legal testimony, equal employment opportunities, etc.” Is all that “anti-Muslim”? My friend, a new convert Muslim responded: ‘So, you would like to see us ditch much of our religion and, thereby, become non-Muslims’.” “In other words, he saw a call for equality of rights for women and non-Muslims in Islamic societies, including freedom of conscience, equality in laws regarding legal testimony, and equal employment opportunities, as a challenge to his religion. To the extent that they are, these facts have to be confronted by both Muslims and non-Muslims.”