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[kalee]

In reference to the title
Good Luck.

[LasVegasMac]

In Search of Moderate Muslims....

From what I've seen - and not heard - no such thing exists.

[navyguy]

There are a handful of ‘moderate’ muslims, but there is absolutely no ‘moderate muslim movement’. None whatsoever. ZERO.

[the invisib1e hand]

I won't even pretend that I read this.

Instead, I'll use it as a venue to offer my current opinion: "Moderate Muslim" is a ruse. Certainly lots of people who call themselves muslim are moderate enough; but that may have more to do with their priorities than than with the dogmas of thier religion.

I think terrorism is the logical consequence of Islam.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The more the Bush administration appeals to “Moderate Muslims”
the more it looks like a sign of weakness.

[SatinDoll]

I hate these kind of articles as they seem to go on and on relentlessly.

All Muslims believe their religion superior to all others. For that matter, so do Christians. The difference is Mulsims believe it is acceptable to kill or enslave nonbelievers, or infidels.

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“...Islamic Scripture imply a relentless war...”
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Eventually there will be an all consuming war, particularly as Europe appears to be going under in a demographic wave of increasing Mulsim births and immigration.

[CaptainK]

I’m in search of a Häagen-Dazs that makes me lose weight.

[BreezyDog]

Does moderate mean they only want to kill you a little bit?

[Pontiac]

Hamzawy, like others, has in mind especially the Muslim Brotherhood, the granddaddy of all Islamist groups and the one that in Egypt’s 2005 parliamentary elections bested the ruling National Democratic party in most of the (carefully chosen) districts in which it entered candidates. The Brotherhood thereby demonstrated its potential to challenge the power of the incumbents. This result may have had something to do with the fact that, a year earlier, it had issued a “reform initiative” stressing “respect for partisan plurality, free elections, and the rotation of power” as well as (in the words of its spokesman) “complete equality in rights and duties” for Egypt’s Christian Copts and women. To underscore its new stance, in 2004 the Brotherhood even began to replace its traditional slogan, “Islam is the answer,” with a new one: “freedom is the answer.” (The change attracted more notice than the Brotherhood’s subsequent reversion to the original in time for the 2005 election.)

I don’t know if the author intended to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood had suddenly reformed and taken up the mantle of Liberty in favor of equal justice for Christians and women but if he did he is out of his flipping mind.

If the Brotherhood should gain power in elections freedom and equality for Christians and women would be struck a huge blow and would not be heard of again for quite some time.

[Secret Agent Man]

Many ‘moderate’ muslims are muslims who believe much of what the extreme ones do, but look at the current state of affairs wherever they are living and decide that the time is not yet right for an all-out jihad - not enough signs are there, and they don’t have enough strength so they must be patient).

[Sgt_Schultze]

Here they are...

[IronJack]

It would be a more productive use of your time to look for dehydrated water. Evil -- violence, hatred, savagery -- are sine qua nons of islam. You cannot separate them, and whatever islam is without them, it isn't islam anymore.

No, this war is between civilization and barbarity, and we're letting the animals win.

[reg45]

Why does this bring to mind the image of Diogenes and his lantern?

[Fiddlstix]

In Search of Moderate Muslims
(Film At 11:00)

It's going to be a long yet fruitless search

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

That should be an interesting search.
How is “moderate” defined? - rubbing novocaine on the machete when chopping heads?
Putting rubber balls in suicide vests instead of metal balls?
Locking children in a school and just torturing them, not killing them?
Lotsa luck!
“Moderate”. Does that include those who send money to organizations that masquerade as charities but send the money to terrorists? Does that include those who quietly do nothing and thereby show that they accept the terrorism? (like the germans who did nothing during nazism)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS. The search could take a while.

[Sir Gawain]

what exactly is moderate Islam, and where can we find it?

Not in the Koran, that's for sure. Hence the problem. Moderate Muslims are apostates. Fundamentalist Muslims are simply following the teachings of the Koran.

[SJackson]

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[G8 Diplomat]

-Ahmad Shah Massoud -Abdul Palazzi -Ayaan Hirshi Ali -Nonie Duwash -Ataturk -Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi -His son, Reza Pahlavi -M. Zudi Jasser -FReeper Cyrus the Great -FReeper a_Turk -British lady who ran for MP in conservative party -Hadi al-Jazail (Shi'ite Iraqi who celebrated Christmas Mass with Christians) -Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury (Called the UN a "dirty diaper," pro-Israel) -Salman Rushdie -A guy from Yemen who convinced terrorist-wannabes that killing infidels was wrong -A Saudi blogger, forget his name but he writes good stuff -The dean of Islamic studies at Qatar University, who also smells the stink in terrorism -My dentist -A Palestinian co-worker of my mom's

Those are all the moderate Muslims I can think of

[neverdem]

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