A just-published study from the RAND Corporation, Building Moderate Muslim Networks, methodically takes up and thinks through this concept. Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell Schwartz, and Peter Sickle grapple intelligently with the innovative issue of helping moderate Muslims to grow and prosper.
Road Map for Moderate Network Building in the Muslim World (long read)
RAND Corp. ^ | Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell H. Schwartz, Peter Sickle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818382/posts
IMO the west should start to stick it to so called moderate muslims. They better start doing something fast or there will be no moderate muslims.
"Promoting". Money is what's being ask for. Give them MONEY to act moderately... eventually they may... but if you don't see any significant change and pull away that money, they'll revert to the natural state of killing indiscriminately again.
You fine folks might be interested in this Daniel Pipes article on moderate Muslims and supporting them versus the extremists and terrorists.
These days, conservatives are more willing to give moderate muslims a fair shake than liberals are.
Supporting Secular Muslims is a very good GOAL.
First you terrorize your opponents into silence so that your movement appears to have no opposition. This gives you tremendous power, not only because moderates quietly feel they are alone in their disagreement with you, but also because the ignorant media – especially the foreign media – casts you as the choice of the people. Having succeeded in silencing moderates, the next step is terrorizing them into cooperating with you. Soon passive cooperation is not enough. You want more than their body – you want their soul, so you terrorize the moderates into being “passionate” in your cause.
In the end, your movement appears to have only loyal and active supporters. Now you are in total control, for who would dare speak out against you? As Hitler said, 10 years before he finally rose to power, “The National Socialist Movement will in the future ruthlessly prevent – if necessary by force – all meetings or lectures that are likely to distract the minds of our fellow countrymen.” In other words, all opposition is evil and we will protect you from it. Sound familiar?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24656
There are lots of moderate Muslims. The cemeteries are full of them. Make no mistake the nutcases drive the bus in Islam. If moderates ride quietly, they get to move up a notch above the Christians and Jews when the nutcases take control.
Stop Jihad Now!
I’m not impressed by the so called ‘moderate muslim “movement”’. I will occasionally see a moderate muslim here and there on TV or hear one on radio... maybe find an occasional article, but these moderates have nowhere near the network, organization and voice of mainstream (read: radical) muslims. In fact, I don’t view it as a “movement” at all. Most of them come accross as voices in the wilderness. At this point I am convinced that, at least here in the US, radical Islam will have to be defeated by non-muslims.
” Dismayingly, the quartet refrains from condemning Washington for holding talks with lawful Islamists even as it cautiously endorses European governments treating some Islamists as partners”
This makes no sense to me. What am I missing? (besides the
proverbial one brick)
I doubt that moderate Muslims can ever successfully challenge radicals. The radical always has the advantage. Non-Muslim moderates cannot succussfully challenge radicals. The radical always has the advantage.
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Just as “ordinary” Germans passively accepted the nazi atrocities and were guilty, the moderates who passively accept terrorism are guilty.