Moderate Muslims Take to The Streets

[M.Dancer]

“I'm here to prevent Recep Tayyip Erdogan from becoming president,” said Serkan Ozcan, a 30-year-old engineer who travelled nearly 370 miles from Izmir to attend the rally. “Never has someone of that mentality been president and never will there be.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...turkeymarch0414

Here Ladies and Germs is evidence that the struggle (Jihad if you will) against Islamic dark age theocracy is taking place from one end of the islamic world to the other. These are our potential allies against ignorance. Without them doubt there can be victory. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.....

[DogOnPorch]

The Turks, though...kinda figures. They joined NATO, too. Fought along side Canadians in Korea. Countries like Syria, Jordan and Egypt were defacto Warsaw Pact nations. Iraq and Iran were both friendly up until a point due to their governments installed during WW2. But it's swell to see the Turks take a stand against radical Islam. Now if this was Tehran...lol.

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[ScottSA]

“I'm here to prevent Recep Tayyip Erdogan from becoming president,” said Serkan Ozcan, a 30-year-old engineer who travelled nearly 370 miles from Izmir to attend the rally. “Never has someone of that mentality been president and never will there be.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...turkeymarch0414

Here Ladies and Germs is evidence that the struggle (Jihad if you will) against Islamic dark age theocracy is taking place from one end of the islamic world to the other. These are our potential allies against ignorance. Without them doubt there can be victory. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.....

Good to hear we found more than one or two Islamic moderates in the same place at the same time. But that should come as no surprise, given the meme that Islam is a religion of peace and the "extremists" are just a few bad apples. What should come as a surprise is that it's notable when Muslims actually protest against, instead of for, the "small number of extremists". Why, most of the time it seems like the small number of extremists make up about 90% of Muslims, what with the global riots, daily murders and sharia governed countries.

[scribblet]

This brings us to a suggestion here that it is not only muslims silencing muslims but PBS is getting into it too.

PBS was apparently making a documentary called "Islam vs. Islamists" depicting just how hard this can be for moderate Muslims — only to have the rug pulled out from under them by politically correct management, who sabotaged and finally cancelled the project.

I listened to an interview a few days ago with Irshad Manji who is very articulate and is travelling to get her message across. She is on the receiving end of death threats for that also.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...1083918,00.html

Beyond Cowardice Dave Price

I've said before I respect the bravery of moderate Muslims who dare to speak out against violent extremists; theirs is the heaviest burden in the struggle to spread Enlightenment values.

Subtitled Voices From the Muslim Center, Burke says his film "attempts to answer the question: 'Where are the moderate Muslims?' The answer is, 'Wherever they are, they are reviled and sometimes attacked' " by extremists.

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1176239350.shtml

[scribblet]

There's a piece in the NP today that refers to the PBS issue and now Irshad Manji is hosting a documentary. People like her have to be commended for having the guts to speak out.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/is...d4-748014c6bf0a

It was probably inevitable that Irshad Manji would emerge as both narrator and star of Faith Without Fear, a one-hour documentary critique of Islam. The program appears on TV twice this week, first on Thursday night on the PBS America at a Crossroads series (now tainted by the decision to withdraw Islam vs. Islamists, a film by another Canadian, Martyn Burke, apparently because PBS considers it too hostile to Islamic extremists) and then on Global Saturday night.

Manji's appearance at the core of Faith Without Fear reflects the fact that her opinions have turned her everyday life into a high-profile drama. In 2003 her book, The Trouble with Islam, gave her a role in a global controversy. It aroused hope among those who want Islam reformed and excited the rage of Muslims who consider criticism of their faith offensive, particularly when it comes from a self-designated "Muslim refusenik" who believes the Koran needs reinterpretation.

Manji has her supporters, but many Muslims respond to her arguments with insults and death threats. She lives behind bulletproof glass in a Toronto house whose address she doesn't casually disclose. While filming part of Faith Without Fear in Yemen, she had three bodyguards......

[BC_chick]

Without them doubt there can be victory. Lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.....

How liberal of you.