"But what about the moderates?"

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

I'm certainly not arguing that extremist Muslims don't exist.

What I'm arguing against is the clear willingness to use a broad-brush regarding Muslims -- and, indeed, other theists -- that is sloppy thinking.

The same guys who say "But Stalin was only one atheist" are very happy to act as if bin Laden represents all Muslims.

And then they turn around and exalt reason above everything else!

Pity they spare themselves the microscope; they'd learn a lot.