"But what about the moderates?"

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I wouldn't call it cherry-picking. If you read the news, Muslim countries afford plentiful examples of Wahhabi-influenced Sunnis killing or intimidating members of more moderate sects.

I'm sorry. The cherry-picking isn't Min's; it belongs to the media. Apologies for the poorly-worded reply.

That still doesn't render his repetition of the story to be a refutation to my point, which is that moderate Muslims do speak out against atrocities exactly as he asks, and yet he still moves the goalposts in order to nurture his own bigotry.

I have consistently argued that there are moderate Muslims speaking out against the extremists, and I have given examples of the same. However, I think it is important to recognize that in many Muslim countries, there are large numbers of extremist Muslims who make a practice of intimidating both non-Muslims and Muslim moderates, and the extremists try to do the same in western nations too.

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Although I have myself complained more than once in the past about moderates giving cover to extremists by exalting their holy book, I am no longer sure this counts for much. Don't the fundamentalists pass on their fundamentalist convictions about the inerrancy of their book without looking for support from moderates?