There are…noncomittal muslims who are the equivalent of “moderate” muslims. Most of these are overseas, and poor, so we don’t ever meet them, nor do they ever make a peep. But they exist. In large numbers.

That jihad in Darfur features Muslims targeting Muslims. Such episodes, whether in Somalia, Darfur, or anywhere else, emphasize the need for peaceful Muslims to stand up strongly, in deed as well as word, against global jihadist violence. The sword of takfir ought to cut both ways, with peaceful Muslims willing to distinguish themselves from their bloody-minded coreligionists, and to repudiate their murders not just of fellow Muslims but of non-Muslims also.

I just don’t see it happening. Islam has become so much more politicized and its goal remains the same whether violent or “peaceful” jihad.

If the movie helps in some way, then good. But I still do not want to see Islam in this country without major reform.

Do you really think so-called “moderate” Islam is less dangerous? Not violent, perhaps, but still a manipulative cancer that seeks total control of everyone and everything.

Connie on October 19, 2007 at 2:13 PM

Please, please, please… Please give me a list of 5 moderate Muslims. Please stop using this term “moderate Islam” or “moderate Muslim”. There is no such thing.

Good for Fox!

If Fox handles it the way they have other specials on radical Islamists, always hosted by ED Hill it seems, it will be a big dissapointment. She spends too much time chit chatting with the producers and they hack the movie up into 5 minute segments which destroys the whole flow.
I am glad they are doing it but I am afraid it will fizzle because of their presentation.

LakeRuins on October 19, 2007 at 10:20 AM

Amen….EB Hill or whoever needs to keep their mouths shut and let us see the entire special without interruption.

Ooooooh, so scary CNN. Just in time for Haloween.

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The documentary was great, but I turned off the panel discussion when Hockenberry said that the NYT had just come out with an editorial saying we need to pull out of Iraq, and used that to claim that “mainstream America” is now opposed to the war.