what "moderate" Muslim???

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), May 6, 2008 at 21:50

Steve, you ask: "Dr. Pipes posits, moderate Islam is the solution. What is a moderate Muslim? Is a moderate Muslim one who does not take the commands of the prophet literally? Is a moderate Muslim a practitioner of Sufism like Stephen Schwartz or Sheikh Professor Palazzi?"

Exactly!!!

As I have said repeatedly on this blog, there is no "moderate" Islam and there are no "moderate" Muslims. If they follow Islam, they are all the same and radical by our standards. We are wasting our time looking for mythical moderate Muslims for we will never find them.

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