[Twinkie]

The moderates are probably afraid to speak out against
the extremists in fear of their own lives. Sort of like
the ordinary Germans were afraid of the Nazis.

[Snapple]

Saddam and the terrorists kill people who speak up.

15 October, Iraqi photographer Karam Husayn, who worked for the European Pressphoto Agency, was assassinated by militants outside his Mosul home. One day earlier, Dina Muhammad Hassan, a correspondent for Al-Hurriyah television, which is owned by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, was gunned down in front of her home in the Iraqi capital. The International Federation of Journalists (http://www.ifj.org) reported on 18 October that Hassan had received unspecified threats to stop working for Al-Hurriyah and was warned to wear a hijab, or Islamic head scarf.

[FITZ]

The moderates are probably afraid to speak out against the extremists in fear of their own lives. Sort of like the ordinary Germans were afraid of the Nazis.

Yes -- that's how it works. Cowardice. They know what is going on but pretend not to see it.