Antitheist Ex-Marine To Hold Draw Muhammad Rally in AZ Friday

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At what point is someone a radical? In Islam controlled countries there is no free speech. It's not the radicals that are the problem, it's the religion.

The same was true of Europe when it was in the grip of the Catholic Church in the dark ages.  When a religion is in charge of a country, there is no free speech.  It is nothing unique to Islam.

Yeah, of course. The rest of us just don't live in the dark ages anymore.

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I'm not saying that Islam is not an obnoxious religious practice, I'm not defending its backwardness.

But quite frankly the moderates do speak out against the radicals with regularity. The problem is that those headlines don't drive as many mouse clicks, and don't resonate with a Western public that doesn't want to challenge its own narrative.

Like I said, I don't think it's the radicals that are the bulk of the problem. How do you define mainstream Islam? Is the government of Saudi Arabia mainstream? It's the religious center of Islam and they are a far bigger problem then the occasional shooting in the west (not that I would defend that in any way.) I don't think that a few westernized Muslims at all represent Islam. Quite to the contrary, we see what happens when there is a Muslim majority in almost any country, and that's a repression of free speech.