An alliance with so called moderate Muslims will only make sense when they are worthy of one

Submitted by Sully (United States), Sep 21, 2006 at 09:25

There is perennial talk of all of the moderate muslims out there who want to work with us to defeat the Islamists. Yet there is never a peep from these supposed allies when even the most atrocious acts are committed.

For instance. Last week an Italian nun who was nursing muslims in Somalia was murdered, probably as a crazed response to the Pope's speech. If so called moderate muslims won't speak out forcefully when such a senseless atrocity occurs then it is impossible to distinguish them from enablers and co-conspirators.

Yes, yes, yes - I know. The moderate muslims are more afraid of the terrorists than we are.

If cowardice is the problem then our strategy needs to be to impress upon moderate muslims that they may well have reason to fear us more than they fear the terrorists if our anger continues to build.

A neighbor who breeds and rears vicious dogs is responsible for controlling those dogs.

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