Posted on 04/19/2007 5:43:29 AM PDT by Valin
Right, that’s something to be really proud of.
I doubt that moderate Muslims can ever successfully challenge radicals. The radical always has the advantage. Non-Muslim moderates cannot succussfully challenge radicals. The radical always has the advantage.
Sure, I love being the subject of ad homonym attacks.
To sum it up for you, there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. It would be like saying there is a moderate Christian.
The reality is that there are lapsed Muslims and those who have chosen not to follow the tenets of Islam. Likewise there are lapsed Christians and those who identify themselves as Christian but don't adhere to the tenets of Christianity...
Simple question... Would you call gay Bishop Gene Robinson a "moderate Christian"?
To say that there are moderate muslims would insinuate that there is a moderate "politically correct" form of Islam of which there isn't.
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You mean words that sound like attacks but actually mean something entirely different?
Winston Churchill made no concessions to appeasers and neither do I.
Just as “ordinary” Germans passively accepted the nazi atrocities and were guilty, the moderates who passively accept terrorism are guilty.
“Money is what’s being ask for. Give them MONEY to act moderately... eventually they may... but if you don’t see any significant change and pull away that money, they’ll revert to the natural state of killing indiscriminately again.”
Is that called “extortion” where you come from too?
No, in Mass. they call it either “Politics” or “tax cuts”.
I doubt that moderate Muslims can ever successfully challenge radicals.
In the last elections in Malaysia & Indonesia the Islamist parties got their asses handed to them. Just one example off the top of my head.
Hewitt: Hour 2 - Hugh discusses al Qaeda and the war on terror with Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens
No transcript up yet.
I read the Rand report (thanks for posting it) and found it interesting and educational.
from it...
“Reversing the flow of radical ideas from the Arab world to the non-Arab regions of the Muslim world will be a formidable challenge because of the lack of Arab civil-society institutions that could act as disseminators of moderate ideas and because of cultural resistance within the Arab world to interpretations of Islam that originated outside the Middle East.”
Radical ideas/actions are taking hold in this republic, The United States of America, and other democracies. Stopping their flow here (in a non-muslim, non-Arab country) is a daunting task. Reversing here and beyond here is even greater.
Iraq was bold and necessary in terms of Arab/Sunni radicals.
Pipe’s efforts are noble, your examples are optimistic. Indonesia and Malaysia are not clear and present dangers.
Trickle down annihilation works.
Tax cuts? In Mass?
Oh, wait, I bet in Mass they call tax hikes, cuts - right?
First, I think there is enough of a desire for one that there can be, even if there isn’t now (which I am not convinced there isn’t). Secondly, does anyone have any better ideas that are legal and not terribly immoral?
And the Kurds have many moderate muslims amongst them. And, as I recall, Sufis are generally pretty moderate.
“Secondly, does anyone have any better ideas that are legal and not terribly immoral?”
Yes! Grab a pot of coffee sometime this weekend after a break from yard/house work and read this (all 6 parts)....
http://www.islam-watch.org/NoSharia/PreventEuropeIslamization6.htm
Many, many thanks to NoSharia.
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