[Calpernia]

That is my knee jerk assumption too. Does ANYONE KNOW if there is a difference between Muslim and radical Muslim? I've read 3 different translations of the Qu'ran. I've been in mosques. I have read FatWas and am pretty up to date on Shari'ah.

I don't see room for a difference. Am I missing something? Why doesn't Islam get declared a cult already? Or am I missing something??

[GovernmentShrinker]

You're missing a lot. Fred Phelps' "church", Methodists, Roman Catholics, and phony huckster televangelists all claim to follow the Bible. An equally wide range of beliefs and practices fall under the umbrella of followers of Allah and the Quran. Certainly, the current period in Muslim history is marked by a strong current of violence and intolerance in the name of the religion. But Christianity has gone through such periods in its history as well.

[Salgak]

You are. By your view, we should also lock out Catholics: after all, the Office of the Holy Inquisition is still out there. But just as Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition are not indicative of the Catholic Church as a whole, Radical Islamists are not indicative of Islam as a whole. .

[Defiant]

Does ANYONE KNOW if there is a difference between Muslim and radical Muslim?

Sure, it's easy to tell the difference. A Radical Muslim is one who has acted on his religion's principles by participating in some type of terror or advocating it publicly.

A regular Muslim is one who professes a religion that tells him to engage in violence and war against infidels, but who has not taken specific steps YET in accord with his beliefs.

[votelife]

If Islam had 50,000 worldwide members, it would be called a cult. But Islam has over a billion, with many more very "sensitive" to calling a spade a spade. So for now apparently, it's "one of the world's great religions." a "religion of peace"

[FreedomPoster]

>>Why doesn't Islam get declared a cult already?

Because it's too dang big, and doing something about it would be painful. And because we need the help of some, like the Turks (in a weird secular Muslim limbo) and the Qataris (need a protector).