kalm wrote:ChickenMan wrote:
Where are ALL those peace loving Muslims.. these huge numbers of 'bad apples' don't exist in a vacuum.. they thrive and are proliferating due to the active support or tolerance of the general Muslim population. To deny that fact is naivety at it's worst.
1/2 of them live under authoritarian patriarchal regimes often times supported by western powers (see Bahrain, Syria, Egypt under Mubarak)...they are called women. Figuring out how to educate and empower Muslim women (again, 1/2 the population) would be a good start.
Another good portion of the Muslim populace are uneducated men trying to just scrape together a subsistence for their families.
So yeah, they're tacitly silent, but if given the voice, might not support their rulers.
Bomb them with porn, booze, tapes of Lady Gaga, and issues of Cosmo I say!

based on my own experience in that part of the world- those poor, uneducated Muslim men just trying to feed their families would scoff at your idea that we should be empowering and educating Muslim women-
i know gobs of Muslims who would not be in favor of wholesale murder like what is happening in Iraq right now
but those same Muslims also behave in ways that would have people in the West (particularly liberals) all in a tizzy if it was Christians behaving that way. but we're so acclimated to the absolute hideous conduct of groups like ISIS that other behaviors that fall short of executing children are just "meh"
"moderate" is, as with all other things, a relative term. So take away most the hardcore brutality of Al Qaeda and the other Wahabbists and you are still left with a repulsive, repressive religion when it is faithfully practiced.
what would truly be a "moderate" Muslim would earn a death penalty for apostasy in some "moderate" Muslim countries