tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post8934185363078752800..comments2024-01-29T21:39:07.526+02:00Comments on This Ongoing War: A Blog: 13-Apr-08: Terrorism doesn't recognize bordersOz_in_Zionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13661581252423495040noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29459499.post-8080209698567634372008-04-15T06:04:00.000+03:002008-04-15T06:04:00.000+03:00But how do you define a 'moderate' Imam?Let me be ...But how do you define a 'moderate' Imam?<BR/><BR/>Let me be clear here - I know that there are peace-loving muslims out there who aren't a threat to my way of life (as a UK citizen). I meet them in everyday life, I even read some of their blogs and I know that they're as sickened by the Islamists as I am. <BR/><BR/>How they reconcile their peaceful beliefs with the teachings of Mohammed I still haven't managed to work out, but I at least know that they're out there.<BR/><BR/>I'm less than confident though, at this attempt to recruit 'moderate' Imams from Pakistan. So what puts them in the 'moderate' camp, exactly? A belief that Jews maybe shouldn't be slaughtered in the name of Allah, but that the existence of a Jewish state still cannot be tolerated in the middle east?<BR/><BR/>That female genital mutilation is a barbaric anachronism and shouldn't be placed alongside genuine Islamic teachings, such as requiring women to keep themselves covered? Although those passages about a woman's testimony only being worth half that of a man's might be harder to refute...<BR/><BR/>I don't hate muslims. I recognise that there are a lot of people who are fine human beings and who just happened to be born into Islamic societies. There are also people who inherit Islam as part of their culture and come to their own conclusions about right and wrong, as the British Muslim soldier who recently fought and died in Afghanistan must have done.<BR/><BR/>I also know that Islam, particularly as taught in the middle east, is so bound up with ideas of Jew hatred, victimisation, and Arab supremacy, that there's going to have to be a seriously good vetting process to separate the genuine moderates from the more softly-spoken Islamofascists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com