Pamela Geller, WND Column: ‘Moderate Muslims’

What is "moderate" but a mere measure of a particular thing? So yes, Muslims who aren't blowing people and places up are …. moderate.

DEFENDING THE WEST


'Moderate Muslims' not protesting jihad
Exclusive: Pamela Geller rebukes Islamists for accepting Boston, London murders

Muslims who cited the Quran to explain and justify their ritual
slaughter have beheaded a young British soldier in broad daylight on a
London street. “Moderate Muslim” groups have issued their usual vague
and tepid condemnations, with their usual finger pointing and blaming of
anything and everything except Islam’s violent teachings. Their leftist
media propagandists have fallen into line. But what are the “moderate
Muslims” really doing to stop jihad terror?

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The kneejerk reaction from Muslim spokespeople and the “leaders” of
various Muslim organizations after that bloody beheading in London and
the copycat stabbing of a French soldier by a Muslim who is still at
large in Paris, as well as the bloody bombing of women, children and
families on a bright shiny Monday in Boston, has not been to start real
work on reforming Islam. Instead, it has been a secondary attack on the
kuffar. We are admonished and schooled on a mythical narrative of
anti-Muslim backlash and “Islamophobia.” “Moderate Muslims” hold no
protests against the jihad here or abroad.

But they protest us. They protest our freedom rallies. The Daily Mail
reported Monday that the jihad murderer Mujahid Adebolajo “was among
hundreds of young Muslims who gathered outside Harrow Central Mosque in
North-West London” on Sept. 11, 2009, so as to “‘defend’ it against a
planned joint protest by the English Defence League and Stop the
Islamisation of Europe group.” The jihad murderer was protesting our
group – in the company of numerous Muslim “moderates” who deplored our
“Islamophobia.”

This was nothing unusual. Every time we organized a protest against
the ground zero mosque, for example, “moderate Muslims” were there
protesting us. When we held a conference in Dearborn, Mich., the Jessica
Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings, “moderate Muslims”
were there protesting. Whenever and wherever I am scheduled to speak on
individual rights and equality for all before the law, “moderates” are
there protesting.

But where are their protests against how the Islamic jihadists have
used the texts and teachings of Islam to justify the jihad murders in
Boston and London? Where are the protests against the Quranic texts and
teachings that command jihad?

Meanwhile, Mujahid Adebolajo was not the first jihadist to be assumed to be “moderate” and to move in “moderate” circles. The two
jihadists behind the plot to bomb a VIA passenger train over Niagara
Falls, Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, were highly educated, with
access to the best engineering and science intel. No one was concerned
about that: They were “moderate.” What is equally disturbing is that
there are many Muslims on Esseghaier’s team at a research institute in
Canada. What did they know and when did they know it?

What does this tell us about “moderates”? How do we tell the players?
How do we know which of our co-workers and neighbors aren’t bloody
jihadists in the making? Remember: Anwar Awlaki, the imam to the 9/11
Muslim terrorists (who assisted in the purchase of their airplane
tickets), was the go-to imam the media consulted (the “moderate” imam) for all things Islam right after 9/11. And so did the 9/11 hijackers, for “spiritual guidance.”

Awlaki dined at the Pentagon for lunch. He supped there as well. Yet the devout Muslim Awlaki also provided succor and Islamic spiritual guidance to the 9/11 jihadis, the Christmas underwear bomber.
Today’s “moderate” does nothing effective to fight against jihad
terror, and no authorities seem to care – and every now and then,
without warning, today’s “moderate” becomes tomorrow’s mass murderer.
What’s the difference? Good PR and a lot of propaganda served as hot as
apple pie by a jihad-aligned media. What they don’t tell you is the fact
that the most recent survey, conducted over a five-year period, showed more than 80 percent of the mosques in America teach, advance and promote jihad.

This is an ideological war devoid of borders, countries and
nationality. And the sooner the kaffirs and infidels and “people of the
book” accept that harsh reality, the sooner we will begin to stem the
Islamic supremacist tide. The global jihad transcends borders,
nationalities, race, creed (pre-conversion) or color. It is the ideology
of supremacism, violence and hate that compels the relentless war on
non-Muslims and secular Muslims (apostates). Until we face reality (and
truth is the recognition of reality), we are all in great peril.

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Frank

10 years ago

“Moderate Muslim”, indeed. Is that like “sort of pregnant”?

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keith mahone(aka Charles Martel)

10 years ago

Moderate Muslim? Here’s the bottom line:
It is a technical impossibility to practice or recommend Islam and be moderate.
If Islam comprises an extreme set of beliefs, then the practitioners and proponents of it are all extremists by definition. There can be no “moderation” of Islam any more than there can be moderation of any other extreme outrage, the likes of which can only be abandoned or embraced as extreme. No one can be a “moderate Muslim” anymore than he could be a “moderate Nazi” or a “moderate serial killer” or a “moderate supporter of Nazism or serial killers”.
Islam is extremism by definition and anyone who practices or advocates extreme things is an extremist by definition, even if he or she is not exemplifying the most extreme facets of the belief in question at any given time. All one need do is embrace it, assent to it, identify with it, recommend it, or consciously enable it in any way, and he becomes tainted – by choice. That’s the logical implication of voluntary association with ideological options. You can’t have it both ways.
Thus, the term “moderate Muslim” is a perfect non-sequitur. To say “moderate Muslim” is as foolish as saying “moderate extremist”. It’s a built in contradiction. It’s the proverbial square circle. It’s an ideological rendering by M.C. Escher – an illusion or a joke. Moderation is moderation and extremism is extremism and never the twain shall meet. Only a fool would propose such an obvious contradiction and hope to be taken serious by anyone with lukewarm intelligence or better.
The only way to be moderate is not to practice or advocate extreme things. With regard to Islam, being moderate means not practicing or advocating Islam at all. The only choice one has is to embrace Islam and automatically become an extremist or renounce it (and, hopefully, denounce it) and be moderate. That’s it. There is no third option, since Islam is extreme by definition and, again, no one can advocate extreme things without being an extremist.
As for those who believe in the mythically unicorn-like “moderate Muslim”, or the mere possibility of such a thing, they can only hold such a view after first concluding that Islam, itself, is somehow moderate, that it somehow encourages or accepts moderation. And no one who is familiar with Islam (as defined, explained and mandated by its psychotic founder) could cling to such an unreasonable conclusion.
Thus, it is more than apparent to those who are truly familiar with Islam (in an objective, scholarly sense – rather than having become victims of its indoctrination), that those who believe in “moderate Muslims” are simply unfamiliar with Islam, unfamiliar with its core precepts, how it regards itself. In my opinion, this fatal ignorance is best maintained by those lazy, ignorant, arrogant narcissists who waltz about with a self-congratulatory air for being “nicer” than everyone else because they accept nearly everyone and everything (except for logic and principles) in the most irrational and uncritical manner.

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Heltau

10 years ago

The court needs to tie this islime down and put a ball and a thick piece of bacon around his mouth to shut him up. Then put a shotgun under his neck with a cord to the trigger in the hands of the parents and bride to figure out justice for this pig-slime crap human.
that should sooth the savage beast.

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Kuffar

10 years ago

A moderate Muslim can be defined as one who is involved in fewer than three bomb plots at any one time.

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Matt

10 years ago

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/06/04/Muslim-religious-leaders-condemn-holocaust-deniers.html
Please read this and understand majority of Muslims are moderate!!!

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Matt

10 years ago

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/06/04/Muslim-religious-leaders-condemn-holocaust-deniers.html
Please read this and see how the Muslims are indeed moderate

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