Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Moderate Muslims

For a couple of years now, I've been wondering where the moderate Muslims are. They don't appear to be in Saudi Arabia as they've just decided it's okay to whip a 75-year-old widow and sentence her to four months in jail for 'mingling with young men', one of whom was a nephew of her dead husband.

According to a former Islamist terrorist, "Scholars in the most prestigious Islamic institutes and universities continue to teach things like Jews are "pigs and monkeys," that women and men must be stoned to death for adultery, or that Muslims must fight the world to spread their religion." Many of the 'crimes' that are punished in Islamist governments are also in the texts of other religions but these other religions have moved on. He urges Islam to move on and join the modern world.

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