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Daniel Pipes Definitely Believes in Moderate Muslims

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Submitted by David Ryan (United States), Apr 22, 2019 at 18:10

I believe in Practicing Muslims, Taqiyyah Muslims, Heretical Muslims and Ignorant Muslims. I support Heretical Muslims who think the Quran can be peacefully reconciled to non-Muslims, and Muslims who have less than a passing acquaintance with what the Quran and hadith actually say, against real Muslims until no one takes the Quran, hadith and tafsir (scholarly commentary) seriously.

We non-Muslims should not be deceived:

QURAN 9:29-30 - "Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"
Shakir translation
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=282392

QURAN 9:123 - "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)." ibid.

TAFSIR ibn Kathir on 9:123 - "Allah commands the believers to fight the disbelievers, the closest in area to the Islamic state, then the farthest. This is why the Messenger of Allah started fighting the idolators in the Arabian Peninsula. When he finished with them and Allah gave him control over Makkah, Al-Madinah, At-Ta'if, Yemen, Yamamah, Hajr, Khaybar, Hadramawt and other Arab provinces, and the various Arab tribes entered Islam in large crowds, he then started fighting the People of the Scriptures."
http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1578&Itemid=64

HADITH Sahih Bukhari [2926 or 56:139 or 4:52:177] Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
http://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/139

HADITH Sahih Muslim [2922 or 54:105 or 41:6985] Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying:
"The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews."
http://sunnah.com/muslim/54/105

I really don't see anything moderate in Islam.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
2Moderate Islam exits but disappears when needed [286 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
PrashantDec 13, 2019 23:33256500
1Islam ,a totalitarian religion [46 words]AktAug 10, 2019 04:06252572
Guilty by Connotation [332 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
John MaszkaApr 25, 2019 23:04249517
Guilty by Connotation [151 words]John MaszkaApr 26, 2019 21:33249517
3Teaching our dear John Maszka Arabic and Arabic transliteration! [61 words]dhimmi no moreApr 27, 2019 07:40249517
7Boys and girls we have a scholar here! Mr Maszka himself! And Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons! [231 words]dhimmi no moreApr 27, 2019 08:04249517
2Our dear Mr Maszka earned his صلى الله عليه وسلم! [77 words]dhimmi no moreApr 27, 2019 08:26249517
3Teaching our dear Mr Maszka: There are "moderate" Muslims but there is no moderate Islam! [252 words]dhimmi no moreApr 27, 2019 09:50249517
3Our dear Mr Maszka صلى الله عليه وسلم and more gems [149 words]dhimmi no moreApr 27, 2019 14:03249517
3Islamophobia is indeed a false concept. [94 words]PrashantApr 27, 2019 18:26249517
Everywhere an Islamophobe [100 words]JeffApr 27, 2019 21:27249517
Being dragged into hell [96 words]ECAWApr 28, 2019 03:58249517
Allah O Akbar: A Journey Through Militant Islam [25 words]John MaszkaApr 28, 2019 04:52249517
1Your sarcasm is not necessary [154 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
John MaszkaApr 28, 2019 05:30249517
3I worry NOT about moderate/fundamentalist etc Muslims [289 words]PrashantApr 28, 2019 11:24249517
2Our dear Mr Maszka and argument from "but I read it some where then it must be true"! [60 words]dhimmi no moreApr 29, 2019 14:56249517
ECAW: You have to read the following verses in Arabic and then read Tafsir al-Tabari [41 words]dhimmi no moreApr 29, 2019 15:02249517
1Our dear ECAW and "carcans"? Seriously? [65 words]dhimmi no moreApr 30, 2019 07:13249517
dhimmi no more [17 words]ECAWApr 30, 2019 15:03249517
2Re: Guilt by Connotation [200 words]AnonApr 30, 2019 20:24249517
Our dear ECAW صلى الله عليه وسلم needs to stick Urdu [167 words]dhimmi no moreMay 1, 2019 15:39249517
2Our dear ECAW needs to stick to Urdu! [148 words]dhimmi no moreMay 2, 2019 06:24249517
1Our dear ECAW and evidence that Muslim translations by Pakistanis and Indian Muslims are full of lies! [423 words]dhimmi no moreMay 4, 2019 08:04249517
Our dear ECAW is not aware of the disasters in the book of Islam and this time Ibn Kathir telling us that Muslims should tie non Muslims with chains and bring them to Islam! [109 words]dhimmi no moreMay 5, 2019 10:25249517
Our dear ECAW صلى الله عليه وسلم and one more question [59 words]dhimmi no moreMay 8, 2019 07:12249517
1Our dear Mr Maszka and the bogus word "Islamophobia" and Henri Lammens! [231 words]dhimmi no moreMay 12, 2019 09:42249517
2Maszka, a gaslighting narcisist [218 words]Charles MartelMay 12, 2019 19:13249517
3Our dear Mr Maszka صلى الله عليه وسلم and sarcasm? What sarcasm? [474 words]dhimmi no moreMay 13, 2019 06:58249517
1Our dear Mr Maszka صلى الله عليه وسلم and the victims of Islamic terrorism and in this case the Yazidis [65 words]dhimmi no moreMay 13, 2019 07:38249517
pleading of Satan's lawyer [66 words]Adel SaoumaApr 25, 2019 00:11249489
Dr. Pipes, you give the ostensible scholar, Maszka, too much credit... [210 words]Bryan TaplitsApr 24, 2019 11:15249474
1"Moderate Muslims"! [108 words]dhimmi no moreApr 24, 2019 08:24249473
6Charlatans [80 words]AnonApr 22, 2019 19:31249438
Re Charlatans [18 words]John in MichiganApr 23, 2019 23:58249438
1All too Common [31 words]Liatris SpicataApr 22, 2019 19:19249437
4Daniel Pipes Definitely Believes in Moderate Muslims [437 words]David RyanApr 22, 2019 18:10249436
2A long and honorable career. [64 words]Ethan PerksApr 22, 2019 14:17249432
1What resources does Afghanistan have? [124 words]DaveApr 22, 2019 11:11249430
2Afghanistan's resources [319 words]PrashantApr 22, 2019 21:45249430
Afghanistan do have a lot of resources [341 words]Debanjan BanerjeeMay 15, 2019 03:40249430
2Our dear Deb صلى الله عليه وسلم is back! [299 words]dhimmi no moreMay 15, 2019 14:58249430
Our dear Deb صلى الله عليه وسلم and millions of Hindus were the victims of the Muslim invaders of India and he does not care! I wonder why [38 words]dhimmi no moreMay 17, 2019 07:39249430
Our fool's errand in Afghanistan [188 words]JeffMay 17, 2019 11:08249430
2Our dear Deb صلى الله عليه وسلم and Infant Mortality Rates in Afghanistan! [178 words]dhimmi no moreMay 17, 2019 12:50249430
Our dear Deb صلى الله عليه وسلم and more questions! [372 words]dhimmi no moreMay 18, 2019 07:45249430
Our dear Deb صلى الله عليه وسلم and Per Capita Income in Kuffar lands v Afghanistan and Pakistan [60 words]dhimmi no moreMay 19, 2019 06:37249430
Our dear Deb صلى الله عليه وسلم and this time one more question and it is not about the Gospel of Barnabas I promise! [64 words]dhimmi no moreMay 22, 2019 08:22249430
1Prosecutable or not, libel is libel [50 words]JeffApr 22, 2019 11:06249429
Moderate Muslims [54 words]ECAWApr 23, 2019 06:59249429

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