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Under normal circumstances, I am a live-and-let-live kind of individual.
In the case of Islam, they are a direct threat to the entire world.

I have met sophisticated, successful, and American-born Muslims at work that one would initially believe are normal friends and colleagues.
They are in fact seething with violent anger. Some openly believe the September 11th attacks were “reasonable” behavior.

Due to the established taqiya concept of intentional lying to confuse non-Muslims, a person is wise to NEVER believe a Muslim.
The only thing they understand is overwhelming might and strength. Get involved with Muslim people at your own peril.

Right now my employers are Afganis
Very nice people
Pay me well and treat me nice
When the surface discusiokns of Islam come up I simply say having read the Quran and Hadith there’s several ways to interpret
They’re all going on the storybook version of mad mo
So far so good
Work is more important than such discussions
The owners dad Hashimi is a Very high up in Afghan guvmint
They do agree that Taliban are bad guys so that’s a start

I too have met sophisticated, well educated (Harvard, Cambridge etc.) and successful Muslims in the course of my work. Become friends with them and get a few drinks into them (hypocrisy on their part, I know), and you start hearing about how Jews are controlling the world, how they want to destroy the Arab world, how all white women are whores to be used and discarded. I ended ‘friendships’ with more than one of these sophisticates.

In general, I agree with you, but I believe there really are some Muslims who are genuinely moderate. For example, I have a CD by Westminster Abbey Choir. One of the boy choristers is Beans Balawi. His name caught my attention and I tried to find some information about him. Beans is his nickname. His real name is Jordan El-Balawi and he has an Arab father and an English mother. It is of course possible that his father is an Arab Christian. I don’t know his father’s first name so we can’t be sure.

But if his father is a Muslim, it is quite remarkable because choristers at Westminster Abbey take part in Christian worship (I know that the Church of England is becoming more and more unorthodox, but that’s a different question).

Then, there are two villages in Poland in which Lipka Tatars, who are Muslims, live (other Lipka Tatars live in Lithuania and Belarus). Lipka Tatars have lived in Poland for several centuries. They are completely civilized. I have read that recently a Turkish imam gave a sermon in a Lipka mosque in which he tried to incite them. They waited for him outside the mosque and punched him. There is an article about the Lipka Tatars on Wikipedia.

So yes, there are some exceptions.