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Reader comment on item: [Finding Moderate Muslims:] Do you believe in modernity?
in response to reader comment: Being A Moderate Muslim
Submitted by lavinia (United States), Sep 30, 2006 at 22:37
You need to tell this to the extremists. Maybe they will listen to you since you are Muslim too.
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Reader comments (182) on this item
| Title | By | Date |
| Benevolent Face of Islam [414 words] | Waseem Sayed | Oct 12, 2009 00:01 |
| Do you believe in modernity [282 words] | mohammad allam | Nov 10, 2008 09:13 |
| Reasonable Questions from Dr. Pipes EXCEPT... [78 words] | Jamal | Sep 10, 2007 08:55 |
| What is a Moderate Muslim? [270 words] | Erik Larsen | Jul 7, 2007 17:53 |
| ↔ 4 False Tenets. [1325 words] | Manuel F. Nuñez | Dec 30, 2007 20:04 |
| Where do I take the test??!! [18 words] | Qasim Manzoor | Apr 22, 2007 11:49 |
| I failed [6 words] | farooq | Feb 22, 2007 17:21 |
| Proven point. [114 words] | Atiem Q | Jan 23, 2007 13:55 |
| What is this ... [57 words] | mimi | Oct 18, 2006 02:40 |
| Yeah, but... [632 words] | Trevor Swoverland | Aug 30, 2006 16:08 |
| ↔ Wrong! [32 words] | chris | Mar 10, 2007 00:03 |
| ↔ oh really? [33 words] | zen | Apr 2, 2007 06:56 |
| ↔ Before correcting others... [79 words] | Gov | Jun 30, 2008 12:28 |
| We the AMERICANS will defend Israel and crush the Arabs who instigate global problems! [221 words] | Justin | Aug 22, 2006 16:30 |
| ↔ 5 minutes [64 words] | Michael | Aug 27, 2006 20:11 |
| ↔ re: 5 minutes [72 words] | david | Feb 1, 2007 21:00 |
| ↔ there you go [15 words] | Frank Cotton | Aug 20, 2007 12:17 |
| ↔ Cute but Ignorant Comments... [1101 words] | Manuel F. Nuñez | Jan 2, 2008 09:06 |
| Questions Muslims can't answer!! [3411 words] | Salman Saeed | Jul 9, 2006 08:26 |
| ↔ Muslims Do Answer!!! [149 words] | Azmat Zuberi | Aug 11, 2006 17:51 |
| ↔ reply [203 words] | a name would only bias the response | Sep 30, 2006 21:12 |
| ↔ I recently chose Islam after living as a Roman Catholic [616 words] | dBirch | May 29, 2007 17:10 |
| ↔ I am a Roman Catholic married to a Muslim..... [177 words] | Brenda Bakkali | Aug 16, 2007 19:16 |
| ↔ Muslims don't have answers reply [318 words] | asma | Aug 22, 2007 08:40 |
| ↔ I just wanted to point out that... [291 words] | New Visitor | Feb 25, 2009 22:47 |
| ↔ LA CAÍDA DEL IMPERIO ROMANO CON LA INVASIÓN DE LOS BÁRBAROS [553 words] | lusaot | Apr 15, 2009 18:51 |
| a moderate muslim answer and critique [1626 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 28, 2006 09:24 |
| Phew! I failed. [74 words] | Ahmed | Jun 20, 2006 19:54 |
| ↔ Does it matter? [224 words] | Ahmed | Jun 21, 2006 20:38 |
| ↔ fending ignorance [130 words] | a name would only bias the answer | Sep 30, 2006 20:40 |
| ↔ The bottom line......... [19 words] | Tim J | Oct 2, 2007 02:37 |
| ↔ Alhamdulilah I failed! [20 words] | Ahmad | Dec 7, 2008 14:29 |
| Jihad [37 words] | Correction | Mar 4, 2006 01:42 |
| ↔ Jihad [68 words] | Correction 1 | Apr 19, 2006 10:47 |
| Question: did Mohammed kill? [28 words] | Mark | Feb 23, 2006 07:37 |
| ↔ Muhammad killed no one. [99 words] | Hajj Dawud Ahmad | Jul 14, 2007 00:42 |
| ↔ RE:did muhammed kill anyone [50 words] | Manish | Mar 29, 2009 22:57 |
| response [w/response] [124 words] | Khalil | Nov 28, 2005 08:27 |
| ↔ Re: I am a historian of Islam [60 words] | Hamza Zuberi | Feb 15, 2006 09:51 |
| ↔ Modernity? Why not? [242 words] | Subriah Esharc | Jul 15, 2006 02:40 |
| Understand the subject before judging it. [414 words] | Hamza Zuberi | Nov 10, 2005 00:38 |
| No straight answers! [57 words] | Mushtaq Ilyas | Nov 7, 2005 10:44 |
| With my due respect, America is not the world and 500 years is not the whole human history [51 words] | Abdou Niane | Nov 2, 2005 04:54 |
| Congratulations to all Muslims who failed this test. [72 words] | Mahmud | Oct 21, 2005 14:05 |
| i agree modernity [53 words] | mohamed mustafa | Oct 14, 2005 19:16 |
| ↔ Missunderstanding & Misuse Islam Flexibility [152 words] | Citra Pratiwi | Jan 12, 2006 13:04 |
| Here is another question to ask [49 words] | Mark Sharp | Sep 29, 2005 08:25 |
| ↔ Yes and yes again... [159 words] | alia | Dec 6, 2007 15:01 |
| Definitions [27 words] | Mélissa | Sep 26, 2005 14:34 |
| I have failed as a good Muslim should [17 words] | Danial Khan Hadi | Sep 25, 2005 02:53 |
| ↔ modernity [15 words] | emy | Oct 24, 2006 17:51 |
| FAILED IT ALSO...BY A HUGE MARGIN! [77 words] | Tiger | Sep 20, 2005 16:57 |
| I failed the test [29 words] | Muslimah | Sep 13, 2005 12:11 |
| Keeping a watchful eye . . [251 words] | Susan | Sep 7, 2005 12:42 |
| Being A Moderate Muslim [188 words] | HaSsan | Jul 26, 2005 03:07 |
| ↔ ⇒ fight extremism [19 words] | lavinia | Sep 30, 2006 22:37 |
| I passed the test! [237 words] | Hamid Ahmed | Jun 18, 2005 09:45 |
| ↔ i appreciate moderate muslims [176 words] | Karen | Apr 21, 2007 03:11 |
| Questions that should be asked of Christian fundamentalists [269 words] | Kenneth Corbin | Jan 24, 2005 18:36 |
| ↔ Fundementalists are oppressors! [128 words] | duane | Apr 22, 2006 18:27 |
| ↔ ;-) [13 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 28, 2006 09:28 |
| ↔ Eh? point by point response [1307 words] | Saikat | Aug 21, 2006 15:12 |
| ↔ blasphemy [42 words] | Keoni | Feb 13, 2007 02:15 |
| Islamic Counter-Reformation Means Minimal Modernity [156 words] | GWK | Jan 13, 2005 14:26 |
| ↔ God bless the brave [184 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 28, 2006 09:38 |
| Some comments to "Moderate muslim's test": [1006 words] | LK | Jan 10, 2005 06:04 |
| Which are inherently radical religions? [248 words] | LK | Jan 10, 2005 04:22 |
| Islam appears to be inherently radical [265 words] | Mark Sharp | Dec 31, 2004 15:18 |
| ↔ Response to commenter Mark Sharp [345 words] | Victoria | Feb 6, 2005 07:45 |
| ↔ you need to get out more [230 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 28, 2006 09:53 |
| Perhaps not the best inquiries [348 words] | Rob James | Dec 30, 2004 16:45 |
| Question of tolerance [201 words] | azism | Dec 30, 2004 09:39 |
| Proselysing is not anti state [460 words] | Garry Prior | Dec 29, 2004 21:28 |
| Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam [w/response] [378 words] | Ansar Raza | Dec 27, 2004 22:39 |
| ↔ Ahmadis and "peace" [44 words] | JpEditor | Feb 8, 2008 11:50 |
| Questionnaire overextends its reach. [196 words] | Emmanuel Parello | Nov 19, 2004 21:01 |
| Read before you ask questions [w/response] [79 words] | alia robia | Nov 5, 2004 00:36 |
| ↔ Message to Alia Robia and Hamza Yousif [315 words] | Ashoorina | Dec 16, 2004 15:32 |
| ↔ Message to Ashoorina [409 words] | Angel | Dec 28, 2004 00:40 |
| ↔ a muslim girl in a muslim country [184 words] | maram | Feb 26, 2006 08:39 |
| ↔ Regarding Hamza Yusuf: You should read about people before making false assumptions. [160 words] | Manuel F. Nunez | Dec 23, 2007 03:06 |
| ↔ RE: [90 words] | Muhammad Abdur Rahman | Oct 20, 2009 11:47 |
| Feed the brain well [520 words] | Reem | Oct 31, 2004 21:17 |
| ↔ Message to Reem and Hamza Yousif [1122 words] | Ashoorina | Dec 16, 2004 17:11 |
| HAMZA YUSUF FAILS THE TEST OF DANIEL PIPES [84 words] | Jacob Raphael | Oct 13, 2004 16:53 |
| Re accusation of funding terrorism [57 words] | Roslyn Frankl | Sep 27, 2004 21:52 |
| Modernity and tradition [36 words] | Esfandiar Gghafari Nasab | May 2, 2004 07:42 |
| No such thing as Moderate Islam [58 words] | Mona Abousenna | Apr 10, 2004 07:29 |
| just curious.... [855 words] | Joseph Cato | Jan 24, 2004 21:37 |
| Modernity? [559 words] | Joseph Breeden | Dec 18, 2003 22:40 |
| The test [393 words] | Amr Sabry | Dec 17, 2003 11:05 |
| Racism is not answer [727 words] | weasel | Dec 17, 2003 02:08 |
| Are all Muslims extremists? [532 words] | hindutva | Dec 16, 2003 05:38 |
| ↔ Google - "Quran kill" ... unbelievable [53 words] | Ward Pdan | Sep 19, 2006 13:08 |
| ↔ ISLAM:The bitter truth [421 words] | INDIA 4 HINDUS | Sep 27, 2006 16:47 |
| ↔ he killed and approved of killing [52 words] | david bare Proffessor of divinity | Oct 4, 2006 11:20 |
| ↔ Not all Muslims are extremists! [78 words] | Jasmin | Oct 24, 2006 00:32 |
| ↔ MISINFORMED [59 words] | jANIS | Dec 29, 2006 14:03 |
| ↔ In response to hindutva, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:38: Are all muslims extremists? [122 words] | observer | Jan 4, 2007 19:49 |
| ↔ When? [9 words] | chris | Mar 10, 2007 00:39 |
| ↔ Sherman's march on Iraq [1711 words] | B | Jul 10, 2007 01:28 |
| ↔ response to observer, Sikhs are NOT hindus, and hindutva IS NOT hinduism. [251 words] | khk | Jul 26, 2007 17:08 |
| ↔ SIKHS ARE NOT HINDUS. [100 words] | quag | Jul 26, 2007 17:15 |
| ↔ agree [42 words] | sd | Sep 11, 2009 13:20 |
| What is a moderate muslim? [114 words] | A.Nielsen | Dec 14, 2003 12:22 |
| Modernity Question [13 words] | Deep Basu | Dec 11, 2003 07:46 |
| Your Useful Questions - an Excellent "Islamist-Litmus Test" [w/response] [396 words] | Goran Andrijasevic | Dec 8, 2003 01:46 |
| Substitute others [40 words] | Michael Powell | Dec 7, 2003 19:41 |
| ↔ response to Mr. Powell: Some ideas are essential if we are too live peacefully [215 words] | Bob Greene | Dec 16, 2003 23:02 |
| Radical Muslims challenge the thinking we thought was universal [749 words] | Jonathan Pfeffer | Dec 7, 2003 01:34 |
| Domination. [20 words] | eric mudasi | Dec 5, 2003 03:09 |
| Typical Moderate Muslim [129 words] | N. Khan | Dec 4, 2003 13:48 |
| ↔ In response to "Typical Moderate Muslim" [530 words] | Hayyah | Jan 25, 2005 14:04 |
| ↔ Clarification of my earlier comment [225 words] | hayyah | Jan 25, 2005 14:13 |
| ↔ Moderate PERSON, that happens to be a muslim... [245 words] | Alia | Dec 6, 2007 14:34 |
| The Fallacies of Depending on "Moderate" Islam [601 words] | David Ryan | Dec 4, 2003 12:16 |
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| I would like to apologize to you [27 words] | Jason Eritano | Dec 2, 2003 12:52 |
| Khilafism is the fundamental difference [46 words] | Steven Johnson | Dec 1, 2003 18:56 |
| ↔ khilafa .. the need of the time [35 words] | Mohhammad al haj | Mar 27, 2006 03:12 |
| ↔ Khilafa call tiresome [89 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 28, 2006 10:31 |
| Multiculturalism [79 words] | Jason Eritano | Dec 1, 2003 16:17 |
| aren't we forgetting something [119 words] | mark leci | Dec 1, 2003 11:28 |
| still their source is one [82 words] | T.A. | Dec 1, 2003 04:40 |
| Where is modernity in Islam? [213 words] | samy mikhail | Nov 30, 2003 22:36 |
| ↔ wrong perception. [202 words] | bilal ahmed | Oct 8, 2007 16:44 |
| ↔ LOL [74 words] | Esmeralda | Oct 9, 2007 03:28 |
| Who's moderate? [359 words] | James | Nov 30, 2003 20:07 |
| Great idea. . . But. . . [177 words] | Lilith Paloma | Nov 30, 2003 10:37 |
| Great questions [22 words] | Sriram | Nov 30, 2003 00:48 |
| In addition [67 words] | Adelaide Gerol Meisner | Nov 29, 2003 22:46 |
| Questions are concise and to the point [125 words] | Ed | Nov 29, 2003 22:18 |
| what is Israel's obligation [81 words] | y Brandstetter | Nov 29, 2003 16:44 |
| Moderate Islam? [134 words] | Charles | Nov 29, 2003 14:19 |
| Maybe Not [173 words] | Nicholas G. Wion | Nov 29, 2003 00:24 |
| Global Goals of Islam [109 words] | Fred Trinker | Nov 28, 2003 18:37 |
| Another test for Moderate Muslims [10 words] | Stan Brin | Nov 28, 2003 07:44 |
| Now You See Me, Now You Don't [444 words] | Alo Kievalar | Nov 28, 2003 07:12 |
| Distinguishing Free Speech From Terrorist Propaganda [102 words] | Yirmeyahu Ben-David | Nov 28, 2003 06:53 |
| Re Article- Thanks [5 words] | Bill McCraw | Nov 27, 2003 20:19 |
| Great suggestions but ... [161 words] | Ivan Barna | Nov 27, 2003 20:01 |
| Your commentary on Muslims [9 words] | Walter D'Ull | Nov 27, 2003 17:47 |
| You must not trust them at all [175 words] | f shawki | Nov 27, 2003 17:38 |
| another 'Useful Question'? [106 words] | ron thompson | Nov 27, 2003 17:15 |
| Thanks [27 words] | Robert G. Mogull | Nov 27, 2003 13:36 |
| Nice ! Very nice Daniel [133 words] | Kaiser | Nov 27, 2003 12:49 |
| The Myth of Tests for (and of?) Moderate Islam. [393 words] | Patrick Moore | Nov 27, 2003 12:05 |
| Remember the Left [330 words] | Jason Eritano | Nov 27, 2003 10:33 |
| Is Muslim Modernity Possible? [132 words] | Darwin Barrett | Nov 27, 2003 10:25 |
| Islamic Leadership in the United States [182 words] | Professor Nitza Nachmias | Nov 27, 2003 03:47 |
| Excellent questions [24 words] | Joseph M. Ellis | Nov 27, 2003 02:29 |
| Nice Try, BUT WRONG [37 words] | mvm | Nov 26, 2003 23:54 |
| Pretence is more than just a possibility its a near certainty [137 words] | Lloyd Lionel Klein | Nov 26, 2003 18:52 |
| ↔ If you really want to know the truth. [140 words] | A guy | Jul 4, 2008 17:53 |
| Moderate? [49 words] | Charles Tisse | Nov 26, 2003 18:48 |
| How fine a line, or, where's the cameleon? [177 words] | yonason | Nov 26, 2003 16:51 |
| One question only [105 words] | Boris Galinsky | Nov 26, 2003 14:31 |
| Tolerance [110 words] | Stephen Berman | Nov 26, 2003 14:19 |
| Moderate what? [159 words] | Gideon Kanner | Nov 26, 2003 13:49 |
| DO YOU BELEIVE IN MODERNITY [76 words] | Frank Malek | Nov 26, 2003 13:16 |
| Thank you [259 words] | Susan Petrea | Nov 26, 2003 13:12 |
| Civil Liberties should be supspended [310 words] | Jason Eritano | Nov 26, 2003 13:04 |
| Profile Me! [76 words] | Marc Segan | Nov 26, 2003 11:01 |
| Muslim definition of "innocence" [39 words] | Alex Coalson | Nov 26, 2003 10:43 |
| Islam vs. Modernity [133 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Nov 26, 2003 10:43 |
| Pipes' Intelligent Analysis of Islam [396 words] | Anne Helton | Nov 26, 2003 10:33 |
| ONE Islamic cleric? [64 words] | Scott | Nov 26, 2003 10:31 |
| Modernity [32 words] | Sandy Price | Nov 26, 2003 10:29 |
| Moderate criteria [w/response] [269 words] | Boris Frenkel | Nov 26, 2003 10:21 |
| TRUTH is Hard to Find due to al-taqiyya and al-tauriya. [1266 words] | D. Walls | Nov 26, 2003 10:02 |
| ↔ You make the truth even harder to find [198 words] | Abdul Rahman Reijerink | Jun 28, 2006 10:11 |
| Islam and Modernity [274 words] | Vijay Dandapani | Nov 26, 2003 09:51 |
| ↔ In response to commenter "Vijay" [275 words] | Reem | Oct 31, 2004 21:29 |
| Where Are the Moderate Muslims? [w/response] [58 words] | Richard Rheiner | Nov 26, 2003 09:47 |
| Blame the Left [207 words] | Jason Eritano | Nov 26, 2003 09:45 |
| Questions for "Moderate" Muslims [67 words] | Orley Swartzentruber | Nov 26, 2003 09:40 |
| ↔ Response to Swartzentruber [37 words] | Bob | Dec 16, 2003 14:26 |
| I agree, except for one point [w/response] [209 words] | David Bernstein | Nov 26, 2003 09:26 |
| What is Islam [282 words] | Budd Kopman | Nov 26, 2003 09:18 |
| Solution? [5 words] | Morton | Nov 26, 2003 09:16 |
| Moderate Muslims [40 words] | Patrick Mulligan | Nov 26, 2003 09:05 |
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