helping muslim moderates, is it possible?

Submitted by G.Vishvas (Germany), Jun 19, 2008 at 06:24

Dr.Pipes writes: "To do all this more quickly and effectively, these moderates need non-Muslim encouragement and sponsorship."

If non-muslims support the moderate muslims (by whatever open or clandestine means) then that will work as a debilitating argument against the moderate muslims in the muslim world of propaganda, distrust and totalitarian loyalty-competition.

Moderate muslims have no chance of success. Even if the islamic world goes through a 100 or 1000 years of civil war the moderate muslims will not gain the upper hand. Quite the contrary. There are sentences in the kuran (and hadith) which make it impossible for islam to be tolerant, open-minded, self-critical, relaxed, humble etc. Even if moderate muslims chance to make any gains they will be temporary and will be soon taken over by the islamofascists. This has happened so oft in the past. Kuran and hadith and the tricky contradictions therein are the root cause. In the end effect the muslim moderate can function as a camouflage only and serve to make the field ripe for the islamist to take over easily.

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