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Originally Posted by Pete
That's what it is to be a "Good Muslim". Listen to the Imams - there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. To the Imams a "Moderate Muslim" is a bad Muslim and will be dealt with after the infidels. akv you keep thinking I'm saying this. I'm not. I'm simply repeating what Muslim leaders say to their people.
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Pete,
I hear you, but respectfully which Muslim leaders, because we could stack up Imams with polar opposite different interpretations of the scripture, and let them fly at each other till they were blue in the face. In a way it's not centralized like Catholicism, where the Pope is the head honcho, even it was human beings each develop their own hierarchy of identity. Let's say Mussolini busted into the Vatican in 1942 and pressured the Pope to order all American Catholics to join the Axis forces, the response would have been "nice try, bub." When the Iraqis and Iran decided to have a war, they both wheeled out their respective Imams or mullahs who condemned the other. It's depressingly predictable, if you want to build schools for girls in Afghanistan, and you don't bribe the right people, you get a fatwa put on you. Then you have to find another Mullah to supercede this ruling, and you are good.
Pete my question is who are the leaders of Islam that every Muslim follows, UBL, Saddam, Gaddafhi? Nope these are just murderous thugs. If you said well then these other Muslim leaders had better step up louder and be heard, I would agree.
Unfortunately, I can't name the 10 most important or influential leaders of Christianity in the states. But I do know who Pastor Jones is and those Westboro jerks are, I also know they are not leaders any Christians I know would heed at all.
Part of the problem IMO for Islam is it is as fractured as it is diverse.