It’s an uninformed, uneducated, idiotic opinion piece.
In contrast, anyone paying attention to the Lebanese moderates rising up and throwing out Hezbollah’s rule of Beirut (the Cedar Revolution) and then watching Egypt’s 80+ million moderates throw out the radical Muslim Brotherhood would realize an entirely more worldly and realistic view.
Are you robo-posting?
Strawman
As long as the killing remains in its tenants, it’s not a religion - period.
And until Americans deny it 1st Amendment protections, there will be no peace and it will only grow worse and worse.
Because that’s what it is DESIGNED to do.
The Moderate Moosies are the ones who always have a protest parade after the Radicals kill infidels senselessly.
Pray America wakes
If Islam were peaceful why the need for ‘’moderation’’? Wouldn’t that make the argument Islam isn’t peaceful?
Muslims support extremism, hence their silence.
They only time they speak up is when Isreal or the US confronts the extremists.
Islam is not a religion it’s a political party.
“There’s no getting around the fact that a central tenet of the Koran is mass murder....”
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Teach it in K-1 to 12, in college and in Congress and, most of all, to the MSM.
Only after that is done, can a sensible discussion of Islam be undertaken.
The guys Barry wants to arm.
Who is the “god” of islam? It craves violence, lust, greed and totalitarian power. It reserves a special hatred for women, especially the young and pure. It rejects the Eternal Word. It rejects the Ten Commandments and even common sense, fairness, and respect for the fundamental rights of others.
A search worthy of Diogenes ...
There is a race between a Moderate Muslim, a Militant Muslim, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, which one wins?
The Militant Muslim, because the other three don’t exist.
The moderate muslim is like the political moderate - a coward who is afraid to make any real stand on principle.
They will not rein in extremists. They will keep their heads down, their mouths shut, and submit.
In my opinion, the resistance to HizbAllah in Lebanon was based more on their traditional sectarian politics, with Sunnis and Christians opposing Shia domination, than it was a popular repudiation of a militant interpretation of Islam.
In Egypt, I would argue that there was a bit of this repudiation, but more a popular reaction against a tanking economy and abuse of their liberties, as well as a counter-revolution by the old regime.
The West has surrendered in the ideological battle by simply saying Islam is a religion of peace. The principles which drive their violence must be countered.
The principle of abrogation, where the later sayings of Muhammad override the earlier ones whenever there is a conflict, shows plainly that Muhammad did not reliably speak for an all-knowing God. Yet the Islamic scholarship that promotes terrorism and jihad depends on this arbitrary principle.
The principle of holding Muhammad as the best example of humanity, establishes that no one can make judgements that vary form his - so all judgement is removed from consideration, in favor of blind obedience to a demonstrably flawed character.
Those totalitarian and anti-intellectual principles must be undermined in favor of using a principle of moral analysis and individual conscience.
I can well recall that a great many of those “moderate Moslems” cheered as the World Trade Center came down.
bkmk
A moderate muslim is not, a muslim that is. Because they do not follow the Koran and try to kill all infidels
Moderate muslims are the ones that only kill the adult males, while they merely rape the females and enslave the children?
Or are they the ones that give you a chance to pay the jizya and obey sharia law before they chop your head off?