(November 11, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm still waiting for those alleged "moderates and ordinary adherents" to demonstrate that they are willing to denounce the ones who have the guts to act. Mostly they seem to admire them.
I've already given you plenty of links to moderate condemnations. You clearly ignored them; you dismissed them by calling the men who made the denunciations "self-proclaimed leaders". You're not waiting for anything; you're engaged in confirmation bias.
(November 11, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/...e-muslims/
From that same article:
Peter Smith Wrote:There is much too much pussyfooting around the issue for fear of upsetting the extremely sensitive Muslim lobby, not to mention their left-wing (read: “useful idiot”) supporters in the media. We need to know how a Muslim who follows the teaching of Muhammad, which presumably they would all claim to do, can be moderate in the way we understand the term. What do they believe? How do they contort the words of the Messenger to their own worldview?
Are we to assume that the author is unaware of cherry-picking?
It's no secret that Islam is at the root of more terror than other faiths. But this idea that the overwhelming majority of Muslims support it is silly. A 2012 poll of Indonesians points out that while 12 % of Indonesians support encouraging militant attacks on Australia (which is an appallingly high number, agreed), --
Quote:Other key findings:
88% of Indonesians say the suicide bombing attacks that have occurred in Indonesia are never justified, but 7% say they are sometimes justified, and 2% that they are always justified.
62% of Indonesians say democracy is preferable to any other kind of government and there is near universal agreement on three core democratic values – the rights to a fair trial, freely express yourself and vote in national elections.
58% of Indonesians back the United States to be the leading military power in Asia in 20 years compared with only a quarter (25%) who say it will be China.
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publication...ign-policy
Clearly the picture is not so simplistic or one-sided.
