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"The mosques say one thing to the public, and something else to us. Let's just say that the face you see and the face we see are two different faces," says Abdul Haq. "Believe me," adds Musa, "behind closed doors, there are no moderate Muslims."

Indeed. If you want to understand Islam and its attitude towards non-Moslems, read Bat Ye'or's Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide. One of the most interesting aspects of this book is the role the Vatican and the Europeans, especially the French, have played in encouraging Arab nationalism and anti-Zionism. Apparently the Christian Arabs have been among the most zealous anti-Zionists, encouaraged by the Vatican. An important book, it will help you to understand that Islam -- since it is incapable of a reformation and critics and/or apostates are killed -- really is the problem. (That's not to say there aren't individual Moslems who are perfectly decent people who have no interest in world conquest or oppressing anyone) The tenets of the religion are really hostile to EVERYTHING Western civilization stands for.