Does this mark yet a further erosion of the boundary between

Submitted by J.S. (Canada), Sep 25, 2006 at 16:24

"moderate" vs "radical"? I keep hearing this -- more and more people do not seem to accept that "moderate" Islam exists..."moderate" Islam is just a willfully blind creation by wishful, if not delusional, western thinkers. and that this presumed "difference" is not created nor found within Islam itself...

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