Verbal obfuscation :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Vijay (United Kingdom), Sep 26, 2006 at 10:41

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad echoes Erdoğan in stating that "There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. We are fundamentalists in Malaysia. We follow the true teachings of the religion and the true teachings do not teach us to bomb and kill people without reason."

"Reason" can be found for any activity - good ones, bad ones. By Mahathir's definition even Osama Bin laden is a good Muslim becuase OBL has good "reasons" to commit terrorism.

Mahathir Mohammed is fundamentalist wolf in modern clothing.

Like Dislike

Submitting....

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".

Submit a comment on this item

Next Comment >>

Reader comments (54) on this item

	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
	Middle of the road [29 words]	Pat	Mar 22, 2013 20:41	204600
	Last window of the trilogy: the intelligent muslims [598 words]	Ophelia	Apr 19, 2009 01:45	154078
3	Non-muslim girls are a price catch! [353 words]	B.N.Gururaj	Apr 20, 2009 07:02	154078
2	Moderate muslims= powerless muslims [342 words]	Ophelia	Apr 14, 2009 01:00	153835
	Moderate vs. Consevative Muslim--Islam in Europe [49 words]	Straight_Talk_Luigi	Apr 16, 2009 21:08	153835
1	About another kind of still powerless and "moderate muslims" [531 words]	Ophelia	Apr 17, 2009 23:38	153835
	ISLAM [61 words]	A.V.Duch	May 12, 2013 20:32	153835
	Disown Islam's violent past! [212 words]	B.N.Gururaj	Apr 13, 2009 23:12	153833
	Disowning the violent past will help but true change will require the following [669 words]	Sunil	Apr 15, 2009 02:31	153833
	response to "Disowning the violent past will help but true change will require the following" [750 words]	I.Jahir Hussain	Jan 12, 2010 13:55	153833
	There is no moderate Islam. So there is a hope. [225 words]	HopeWhenThreIsNoModerateIslam	Apr 12, 2009 21:33	153795
	ignorance [140 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Michael van der Galien	Apr 7, 2009 10:55	153498
2	r.t.erdogan [108 words]	no name ( too scared to declare)	Jan 27, 2009 20:07	149296
	Tayyip Erdogan and Islam rules now, Atarturk is history. [361 words]	Ayse Dinkal (Ms)	Aug 22, 2008 06:12	137137
	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Kuran`s Islam [189 words]	Sahane Muftuoglu	Sep 4, 2008 10:35	137137
	I want too [69 words]	Dolphin	Sep 10, 2008 10:04	137137
	In Response to the grandson of Ataturk`s bodyguard [183 words]	Sahane Muftuoglu	Sep 16, 2008 09:24	137137
	Ata is a national hero... [392 words]	Dolphin	Sep 16, 2008 20:08	137137
	Comments on the National Hero Ataturk [14 words]	Sahane Muftuoglu	Sep 18, 2008 12:34	137137
	Glad to see [45 words]	Dolphin	Sep 19, 2008 14:44	137137
	Bayramin Mubarek Olsun Sahane [75 words]	Dolphin	Sep 30, 2008 20:46	137137
	so, should we leave islam? [78 words]	havas	Nov 29, 2008 15:25	137137
	By all means, stick to Islam [65 words]	Ugri	Nov 30, 2008 12:32	137137
	islam is the best religon [102 words]	havas	Dec 1, 2008 00:59	137137
	To dolphin [24 words]	Sahane Sultan	Jan 6, 2012 18:56	137137
1	Erdogan accidentally spoke the truth [385 words]	James McCluskey	Dec 17, 2007 06:24	116324
	In FULL Support of James McCluskey for the truth- [181 words]	Ynnatchkah	Dec 20, 2007 22:15	116324
	Erdogan spoke truth about Islam - will our leaders, MSM and experts agree with him or not??? [143 words]	Jaladhi	Dec 22, 2007 18:14	116324
	Thank you Yannatchka, turnspeak [325 words]	Petit Marteau	Dec 31, 2007 10:24	116324
	Answer to your question [168 words]	Straigth_Talk_Luigi	Jun 6, 2008 01:51	116324
	interesting response [182 words]	zis sumer	Jun 14, 2008 09:04	116324
	Moderate Islam? [212 words]	Sahane S. Muftuoglu	Oct 5, 2007 06:10	110392
	continuation of above [206 words]	Sahane S. Muftuoglu	Oct 5, 2007 19:27	110392
	In response to Mr.Muftuoglu [260 words]	James McCluskey	Dec 19, 2007 05:17	110392
	in response to Mr. McCluskey [87 words]	SAHANE MUFTUOGLU	Dec 19, 2007 19:06	110392
	Well Said James [48 words]	another infidel	Dec 20, 2007 02:42	110392
	Response to Mr.Muftuoglu:Talk is cheap. [296 words]	James McCluskey	Dec 22, 2007 03:56	110392
	SEX CONFUSION [40 words]	Sahane Muftuoglu	Dec 29, 2007 06:14	110392
	Apology for sex confusion---The Muslim Jesus [585 words]	James McCluskey (Petit Marteau)	Jan 1, 2008 09:07	110392
	To Sahane Muftuogñu [156 words]	Cherson	Jun 5, 2008 11:55	110392
	turks and islam [224 words]	G.Vishvas	Jun 6, 2008 05:35	110392
1	THE GREATEST LEADER OF ALL TIMES: MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK [149 words]	Sahane S. Muftuoglu	Jun 9, 2008 05:25	110392
	Read MICHAEL RUBIN [67 words]	Sahane S. Muftuoglu	Jun 9, 2008 05:47	110392
1	about turkish imperialism [219 words]	G.Vishvas	Jun 10, 2008 07:57	110392
16	The Greatest Leader Of All Times: MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK [432 words]	Sahane Muftuoglu	Jun 11, 2008 03:55	110392
	This is how indoctrinated persons speak and think [153 words]	G.Vishvas	Jun 12, 2008 06:17	110392
	Thank you Muftuoglu, [80 words]	zisan sumer	Jun 14, 2008 08:39	110392
	James pls [94 words]	zisan sumer	Jun 14, 2008 08:51	110392
	Thank you Zisan Sumer [54 words]	Sahane Muftuoglu	Jun 15, 2008 13:26	110392
2	There are many more like us [207 words]	Alp Atik	Aug 4, 2008 09:59	110392
	to the ignorant man- James McCluskey [57 words]	Ersin Demirbas	Aug 22, 2008 06:47	110392
	response to "turks and islam" [595 words]	I.Jahir Hussain	Jan 13, 2010 00:10	110392
	Fundamentalist, Moderate or just plain Muslim? [242 words]	M. Nathalie Sagbak	Sep 13, 2007 07:12	108754
	Verbal obfuscation [87 words]	Vijay	Sep 26, 2006 10:41	57647