I am not a scholar and I am not pretending to be one, but one thing I know is that to say "we believe" alone is not enough; we cannot say we're true Muslims unless we believe AND do good works - that's written.
When we say we submit, we submit not to the word 'Islam' but to the Will of God, and God's Will entails doing good, enjoining goodness and forbidding evil.
Now unfortunately, trying to be good by doing good, or by enjoining goodness and forbidding evil is caused to mean bigotry, narrow mindedness, extremism, etc.
This is why people who aren't acting in accordance with our expectations or those who disagree with a certain lifestyle are seen to be haters of the adherents of that lifestyle, and their decision to differ is caused to mean phobia.
This is why contradicting our true beliefs, standards and virtues in order to overtly pretend to be in support of the things we covertly dislike has sadly become the newest cool.
Granted, willing to impair your own conviction in order to allow another man to uphold his may afford you the ground to demonstrate a good show of compassion, but whether you're sensibly compassionate is what I doubt.
But maybe the reason is not so weird after all. Maybe we tend to be politically correct about certain moral declines simply because they're expected to offer opportunities that may be favourable to us...Still sad tho!
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