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Originally Posted by Yoda
would everybody please stop talking about moderate Muslims there is no such thing. If they are good Muslims they follow the Koran and the teachings of the several hadith. These Muslims scare the hell out of me. Then we have Muslims that well, we might consider them to be bad Muslims much like we have bad Catholics, that Christians bad Jews, we just kind of roll along don't go to church as much as they should send a bit here and there. I do not understand how you would ever come up with the term moderate Muslim. If you read the Koran what has moderate? There is no moderation in Islam in my opinion based on everything I have read. I think to use that actually believe that there is a moderate Islam meaning followers of the Koran and the hadith has extreme folly and very dangerous.
I divide it this way. There is religious Islam and there is political Islam. Political Islam has absolutely no good to offer this country are any other country that wants to exist. Religious Islam as those who stay within the confines of our laws and Constitution should be free to practice as they wish.
Just some thoughts
Yoda
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I certainly understand your anger, and to a large degree am sympathetic, but if you read this article and other similar observational accounts, you can deduce that a good number of Americanized Muslims who've come to love our way of life while trying to observe their religious beliefs are kept silenced by the radical clerics who control the vast majority of Mosques. These mosques and the radical/mainstream Islamics who control them have been propped up by our own government for years in the interest of energy needs, strategic location and misquided diplomacy.
I only posted this article to present a view of this issue that might stimulate conversation. I don't expect these "Americanized Muslims", as I labeled them, to have any serious prospect of toning down the hate of America and its values that are preached in the very Mosques that they attend in the near future, and probably ever, but it's still worth noting.