[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

One would think that there would be at least a few Muzzies in mosque positions that would stand up and thoroughly condemn what has gone down…. but just like 9/11 and numerous other incidents of violence, nothing. The one thing that I’ve learned about muslims is that very few know the Quran at all and the reason why is quite interesting……they know it generally advocates acts of extreme violence and they are afraid to know what it specifically says in detail. Most would tell you “everybody knows what is in it but no, I have never actually read it”. Essentially, if they knew what it told them to do and they didn’t do it, they would be regarded as an apostate or worse. Far safer for them to stay away from the book completely and plead ignorance.

That's a very plausible explanation of the "moderate Muslim" phenomenon. Thank you.

[hecticskeptic]

As I tell folks who I discuss such matters with, there is no such thing as a ‘moderate Muslim’....unless one wants to use that as an euphemism for an ‘apostate Muslim’ or otherwise is an uninvolved Muslim and only has that status by reason of birth, not personal beliefs. As for the real true believing Muslim? Look no further than Bin Laden. A book that I found to be quite enlightening on this subject is “The Secrets of the Koran” by Don Richardson. I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to him after he did a seminar at our church.

[cradle of freedom]

The muslims are a conquered people, even after all these centuries of islam, they still know that they are not a free people. The islamic world is a lot like the iron curtain countries under communism. They were under the evil doctrine of communism which was enforced by the government, the same thing is true of islam. Over a billion people lived under communism but we did not call it “one of the world’s great religions” because so many people lived under it. Instead we recognized that a group of armed thugs had stolen these countries from the people.

Islam controls a large part of the world because centuries ago a mad dog cult with an army conquered their ancestors and an evil doctrine was forced on them much as the communists did to the eastern Europeans and Chinese. Islam didn’t grown by sending missionaries, it grew by leaps and bounds by the conquest of nations by force.