where are the Moderate Muslims HERE????

Submitted by Kendra (United States), Feb 12, 2007 at 09:14

On message boards such as these, it would be indeed gratifying to see just a FEW messages from Muslims that agree with these sentiments and are able to think critically about Islam. It would be gratifying for some of them to acknowledge our fear and concern as their own fear and concern. Instead, it seems that every single Muslim who writes on this board and other boards of this type, defends Islam without acknowledging any of its shortcomings. In fact, they seem to deny that there are any shortcomings at all.

It would seem that the truth is that they cannot say anything negative about Islam or criticize the Koran because it would be considered blasphemy to do so.

It would be a reasonable to draw the conclusion that most moderate Muslims out there are Muslims who just fail to follow the true path of Islam. That is, they may not believe everything the Koran states, but they believe that it's their own failure that they do not believe everything the Koran states.

This is not TRUE Moderate Islam-- these are Muslims that are feeling guilty about not being more religious.

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