the radical Muslims are in the majority.

Submitted by Lou Goldberg (United States), Aug 23, 2006 at 13:44

Dear Dr. Pipes,

You claim that only a small percentage of Muslims are Islamists and all Muslims should not be penalized for the actions of a minority. If what you say is true, then why have we not seen any of the following: .1. Moderate Muslim clerics or their followers issuing a fatwa declaring Bin Laden, Hassan Nasrallah or any other radical Imam excommunicated? 2. why have there not been any calls by the Moderate Muslims for a reform of Islam by reforming the Islamic religious literature?

If your answer is fear of the radicals, then I must ask why the moderate majority has to be so fearful of only a very small minority? The notion of a tolerant Islamic majority is nothing but the ploy of taqiya and kitman.

Thank you for your attention.

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