"...clerics in Syria denounced her as an infidel. One said she had done Islam more damage than the Danish cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad..."
In a way, one can only hope this is true. This really shows the mentality of these wackos. True dissent by an educated woman, cartoons by some Danish guys, which will harm our death cult more? Hmmmmmm, hard to say.
Amazing to see this in the Times. Interesting to note that they could not find one, not one other "moderate" muslim to quote, and basically said that they are all living in fear. Or maybe there just aren't very many of them.
I am so sick of hearing the "moderate muslim" line, it's nothing but a HUGE lie.
I can understand muslims in islamic countries being afraid to speak out. There is no doubt that they would be swiftly targeted, tortured and killed along with their entire family.
HOWEVER, in the US that would not happen as a rule, instead there would be a few, isolated instances where our law enforcement agencies would go after those who used terror to get across their sick points. Yet, we sure don't see many "moderate muslims" speaking out in the US.
I've yet to see a single march against terror by so called moderates.
I've yet to see CAIR organize any protest against clerics in Islamic countries who sentence a woman to be ganged raped for a supposed crime a man in her family committed.
I've yet to see a large number of muslim clerics in the US attempt to rally their congregations to speak out against terror in the name of Allah.
Moderate muslims my rear end - they don't exist.