[Steel Wolf]

Also, what is a moderate Muslim? Do they just sit by and watch while the militants do the dirty work? Do moderate Muslims even exist, or are there just militant and passive Muslims?

Under Islam, apostates may be killed, even if they are nominally Muslim. Good Muslims are not supposed to kill other good Muslims under any circumstance.

That said,

What we would call a 'moderate Muslim' is an apostate. Rejecting jihad, living peacefully with your infidel neighbors and friends, pretty much anything that's not fundamentalist Islam, can be construed to be apostasy. That means that under Islam, it's more permissable for Bin Laden to kill American Muslims than it would be for them to kill him.

My tagline is also instructive on this issue.

[backtothestreets]

Thank you ... you are most helpful.

I'm trying my hardest to give President Bush the benefit of a doubt, but I just don't see the moderate Muslims he often refers to.

[dfwgator]

Also, what is a moderate Muslim?

The same as a "Good German" back in WWII.