RE: Religious moderates enable religious extremists
October 5, 2013 at 12:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2013 at 12:02 pm by Something completely different.)
(October 5, 2013 at 11:52 am)LastPoet Wrote: Okay TGAC, I'll give you a TL;DR version: Yes, it is true that religious moderates are fundie enablers. Just look at this forum: You see alot of atheists arguing with religionists, it should be damn normal. What would surprise me was if any of the 'moderates' gained some balls and stood p for what THEY believe.
After the 2005 suicide bomings in Amman (Jordan) which was aimed at civilians, hundreds of thousands of Jordanians took to the streets and protested against suicide bomings and islamic fundermentalism.
As a result of the massive outcry of the islamic population against suicide bombing and fundermentalist violence in Jordan, Al Quaida actualy released a video condeming the attacks in Jordan.
Today, fundermentalists in Jordan no longer conduct attacks and engage in terror tactics but formed political parties.
Moderates do stand up against fundermentalism when it starts hurting them.
Most people are buissy with their everyday lives: job, family, hobby, mistres and whatever. It is mostly only when that every day life is disrupted that the broad mayority of the moderate population take a stand. Why should they else?
