I think the problem with what we call "moderates" is that they are not moderate at all, they just get called "moderate" as a relative term because they stop short of violence. They still (verbally) make it plain that you living a 21st Century life offends them and then cry "Islamophobia" when you clap back. That's still a problem for obvious reasons and I take issue with it. What we refer to as "moderate Muslims", in terms of views and conservativeness, are no more moderate than the hardline Evangelicals and Mormons in The US.
There are real moderate Muslims out there, quite a lot actually, but they just tend to slip under the radar and become an invisible minority because they "don't act very Muslim". These are the ones who dress western, probably drink, and don't obssessively follow every single little rule to the degree of mental illness. I've known plenty of Muslims like that, but they're so like us in the lifestyles that they lead that you actually forget they're Muslim.
There are real moderate Muslims out there, quite a lot actually, but they just tend to slip under the radar and become an invisible minority because they "don't act very Muslim". These are the ones who dress western, probably drink, and don't obssessively follow every single little rule to the degree of mental illness. I've known plenty of Muslims like that, but they're so like us in the lifestyles that they lead that you actually forget they're Muslim.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
