“moderate muslim”:
One who is temporarily out of AK-47 bullets, or just wishes that Achmed down the street would take that next suicide-bomber mission, if that’s OK with you.
I’d like to journey into Islam. With one J-DAM delivery after another.
Moderate Muslim - a Muslim at room temperature.
A person who just cannot bring himself to accept what the Koran really teaches. The Christian analog would be like Methodists or Episcopalians who cannot quite bring themselves to accept the plain text of the Bible.
The issue for the West is how to deal with Islam, a belief system that imposes Three Questions on non-believers: convert, submit or die, with a belief system that imagines it can force people to “believe” at the point of a sword. Those who live by the secular version of the Golden Rule (live and let live), are hard-pressed to defend themselves from an otherwise peaceful person who suddenly erupts with the Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
This is made worse by those in the west who subconsciously loathe themselves and project that loathing onto western society as a whole. This manifests itself with the hate-prosperity, hate-liberty, hate-self-sufficiency, hate-Christianity of the secular-progressive left. These people who are almost crazed in desperation to achieve absolution for their own sins think they will find relief in any culture that is hostile to the Christian-based cultures found in the west. Any culture will do, even one based on Islam. Little do they realize what hell they are cheering on.