Moderate Muslims need an incentive equal to the disincentive

Submitted by Sully (United States), Mar 14, 2006 at 17:53

A moderate Muslim who speaks out against the Koran's open incitement to murder makes himself an apostate and thereby courts the very real potential of violence from the extremists. So it's only natural that the many peaceful Muslims keep their mouths shut.

We non-Muslims need to provide the moderate Muslims with a helping hand by making them understand that the eventual reaction by us (or our children) against their whole community will be far more dangerous to them than the risk of confronting the extremists within their communities.

One first mild and very reasonable step would be to deport all current Muslim visa holders who originated from Sharia Law countries and to stop issuing new visas to Muslims from all Sharia Law countries except to applicants is willing to be filmed doing a clear renunciation of the intolerant passages in the Koran.

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