Posted on 05/15/2007 6:37:58 AM PDT by nuconvert
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Can someone explain how one can follow the Koran and be a, “Moderate Muslim?”
Yeah. Let’s support all 12 moderate muslims in the world before they go extinct or are brought back into line.
When it comes down to the nitty gritty, guess who those mods are going to support!
You cannot trust any Muzzie!
I trust Muzzies...one W88 at a time.
That comment above tends to bring out the screaming know-it-alls, but they'll just have to deal with it. Here...I'll even say the phrase that sends them into orbit: Not all Muslims are terrorists. ;-)
I didn’t even get to count to ten before they showed up
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Islamic teaching says it’s OK to lie to, steal from, cheat, enslave, rape and kill “the infidel” because we aren’t human.
Not if they are following the satanic verses of the koran!!!
I knew it... we should’a supported the moderate Nazi’s!
No
Islam, whatever else it is, seems to be a quasi-tribal identity. Its adherents, therefore, seem to have a real hard time ever truly identifying with a non-Muslim group of people in any significant conflict with a Muslim group of people.
Even the most "moderate" Muslims in the West will still feel a tinge of sympathy for their "Palestinian brothers" (regardless of whether the person is Palestinian, or even Arab). Contrast this with how the West treated the Serbs - only on the Buchananite fringe did you hear anyone speak of them as our "Christian brothers" and advocate not bombing them on those grounds. To the mainstream of Western thought, such a view doesn't even compute.
Why is this? Because - unlike Christianity - Islam is not just a religion, and not just an ideology, but also a global, quasi-tribe.
And there may be moderates in a religion (people who don't follow all the religion's tenets, take them too literally, etc.) and moderates in an ideology (people who don't adhere to the ideology's beliefs to an extreme), but there is really no such thing as "moderate" tribalism; you either identify with the tribe against the other, or you don't.
So the real question is, the Muslims who we are supposed to consider moderates - are they willing to abandon their tribalism?
Do you realize that our military works along side of and depends upon the help from moderate muslims every single day?
Would you like to ask our men and women in uniform what they think of your attitude?
Thanks for your input, Allegra
In Turkey recently there have been huge protests in favor of secular government. I've seen estimates as high as 1.5 million protesting the current Islamic ruling party. I can't imagine anything that would get 1.5 million Americans to take to the streets.
Of course you can't. That is why the heretics (moderates) can't win a debate in a Mosque against a fundamentalist. The fundamentalists have the Koran and the example set by Muhammed in the Hadiths on their side.
The moderates are nothing more than heretics who want to alter Islam to accommodate their secular lifestyle and their collaboration with us Infidels.
They are nothing more than our useful idiots. They should get out of the religion, as many have. It's risky, but tampering with the religion is risky also.
The moderates can't abide by the harshness of the religious requirements set forward in the Koran and Hadiths- tom
“This means, I argue, that the US government and other powerful institutions should give priority to locating, meeting with, funding, forwarding, empowering and celebrating those brave Muslims who, at personal risk, stand up and confront the totalitarians. “
And thus insuring that they are seen as nothing but puppets of the “evil United states”....which the Islamists will gleefully portray them as. If the so called moderates want to be taken seriously then they are going to have to stand up on their own initiative.
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