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| Symposium: The World's Most Wanted: A “Moderate Islam' |
| 2010-05-27 |
| In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have invited four distinguished guests to discuss the question: Is there a moderate Islam? Our guests today are: Timothy Furnish, a former U.S. Army Arabic interrogator, he is a consultant and author with a Ph.D. in Islamic History. Tawfik Hamid, an Islamic thinker and reformer who is the author of Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam. M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). and Robert Spencer |
| Posted by:ed |
| #7 A moderate muslim is as rare as unobtainium. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-27 21:53 |
| #6 IMHO, either extreme, that there are no radicals, or that there are no moderates, is more useful to the ruling classes of the enemy countries than it is to us. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-27 14:28 |
| #5 If it doesn't exist there's no way we can ally with Muslim governments or treat with Muslim organizations. I've said on a few occasions that without Khomeiniism, Shi'a Islam would be our natural ally against Salafism. But the two are spiritual kin. It is always a good idea to keep our eyes open and our heads clear when dealing with the Islamic world. Their values aren't ours, and in fact they are more different from us than are China and Japan. That doesn't mean all elements within that culture represent a perpetual danger to us. But when we try to convince ourselves that there's no danger at all then we're being stoopid. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-05-27 13:50 |
| #4 I have come to the conclusion that if there are moderate muslims, they for whatever reason cannot prevent the extremists from spoiling the brand. Ultimately the extremists will go so far that the vast majority of Americans will come believe that it is best left for God to sort them. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-05-27 13:48 |
| #3 There are many moderate moslems, each of whom perhaps believes in an idiosyncratic personal Islam. Some of these even believe in equal rights for women and gays. There are also several minority sects of Islam who are mostly nonviolent. Mainstream Islam however, well that's the problem. Hundreds of thousands (maybe millions or tens of millions) who would willingly kill an infidel if they thought they could get away with it and millions (or tens of millions or hundreds of millions) who cheer on the killers of infidels (or killers of heretics or killers of apostates). |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-05-27 13:43 |
| #2 If you think that moderate Islam does not exist, you are proving you did NOT read the symposium, I definitively proved the existence of moderate Islam. And don't libel me as "liberal"--I am quite conservative. |
| Posted by: Tim Furnish 2010-05-27 13:38 |
| #1 Is there a moderate Islam? I'll save you some very boring reading......NO!! |
| Posted by: armyguy 2010-05-27 13:02 |