Moderate vs. Radical?

jihadjerry
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Moderate vs. Radical?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains why moderate Muslims have little or no traction in the Islamic world -- in, of all places, the New York Times, in an interview about her new book Infidel.

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Q. Have you seen any ideology coming from within Islam that gives young Muslims a sense of purpose without the overlay of militancy?
 

A. They have no alternative message. There is no active missionary work among the youth telling them, do not become jihadis. They do not use media means as much as the jihadis. They simply — they’re reactive and they don’t seem to be able to compete with the jihadis. And every time there is a debate between a real jihadi and, say, what we have decided to call moderate Muslims, the jihadis win. Because they come with the Koran and quotes from the Koran. The come with quotes from the Hadith and the Sunnah, and the traditions of the prophet. And every assertion they make, whether it is that women should be veiled, or Jews should be killed, or Americans are our enemies, or any of that, they win. Because what they have to say is so consistent with what is written in the Koran and the Hadith. And what the moderates fail to do is to say, listen, that’s all in there, but that wasn’t meant for this context. And we have moved on. We can change the Koran, we can change the Hadith. That’s what’s missing.

 


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If you read Sam Harris's the

If you read Sam Harris's the End of Faith he explains the same thing pretty well - some goes for moderate vs fundy Christians.

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