RE: 10 dead in Paris after attack on Magazine
January 7, 2015 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2015 at 10:30 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 7, 2015 at 8:23 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 7, 2015 at 8:13 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: What do the moderates have to do with this?
The silent ones are tacitly benefiting from whatever terrified silence results from these kinds of attacks. It's all well and good to be a "moderate" while simultaneously enjoying the immunity to criticism that the radicals wish to spread by force, but it's the ones who stand up and condemn that use of force that get respect from me.
"I'm a moderate!" only means something if you do the things that moderates do, which is disagree with the methods of the radicals.
And Muslim moderates have done exactly that. Of course, it doesn't receive the coverage that these sorts of acts do, from them media -- denunciations don't garner ratings like blood does.
But they do happen. I'm on my phone now and direct links are a pita, but look in the "what about the moderates?" thread, where I've linked quite a few examples.