It is a good thing and I am glad you posted it. But notice the comments? Ugly and nasty even though the article was saying that the talks were for the express purpose of combating extremism. Comments that make me sick. I just finished reading a thread where everyone was screaming about how the Muslim moderates don't speak up. And right here we are reading about moderates that are tying and the majority of posts just trash them. There is a lot of extremism right here on FR.
"And right here we are reading about moderates that are tying and the majority of posts just trash them. There is a lot of extremism right here on FR."
That is because in the past (And past actions are all that we have to make judgements about future behavior), many of these clerics, who put on these dog and pony shows for public consumption, were preaching out of the other sides of their mouthes and calling for killings, bombings, etc. This has not just been happening recently. This has been the history of islam. This is how they are taught to operate. Open your eyes...but first, take your head out of the sand...