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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Hell, maybe we just have a different idea of what a moderate muslim is.
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This is a very serious issue, I think. For most Westerners, a moderate Muslim is simple a Muslim who (a) is westernized or (b) may not be westernized but is aligned with the West (e.g., the Saudi state). Some people mean (a), some (b), some both (a) or (b). But if I point, for example, to an Islamic woman who wears a veil and is happy to defend the practice, she may not be viewed as moderate regardless of her other beliefs. Likewise, someone who supports any Islamic elements in state law, even if limited to, for example, marital law as applied to Muslims, will be viewed as immoderate, even while someone supporting a Jewish state in the same sense will not be viewed as immoderate.
