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To: Alexander Rubin
FYI, there are several people including Ali Sina and myself who have openly disagreed with Daniel Pipes views on this matter.

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.

24 posted on 04/19/2007 6:49:38 AM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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Hewitt: Hour 2 - Hugh discusses al Qaeda and the war on terror with Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens

http://www.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=1dad309d-394b-4f17-8a91-2389736c1b4c

No transcript up yet.


33 posted on 04/19/2007 7:49:25 AM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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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.


36 posted on 04/19/2007 10:19:49 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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