Comments on: Right Under Your Nose http://themoderatevoice.com/16435/right-under-your-nose/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 07:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David Schraub http://themoderatevoice.com/16435/right-under-your-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-107686 David Schraub Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:32:01 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/religion/islam/muslims/moderate-muslims/16435/right-under-your-nose/#comment-107686 Well, remember, when extremists protest they burn and shoot things. Moderates protest, but they don't riot, and the latter is what makes TV. Well, remember, when extremists protest they burn and shoot things. Moderates protest, but they don’t riot, and the latter is what makes TV.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16435/right-under-your-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-107669 DLS Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:36:36 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/religion/islam/muslims/moderate-muslims/16435/right-under-your-nose/#comment-107669 From the Pew report was what a number of us have known: <blockquote>...[T]here is somewhat more acceptance of Islamic extremism in some segments of the U.S. Muslim public than others. Fewer native-born African American Muslims than others completely condemn al Qaeda. In addition, younger Muslims in the U.S. are much more likely than older Muslim Americans to say that suicide bombing in the defense of Islam can be at least sometimes justified.</blockquote> From the Pew report was what a number of us have known:

…[T]here is somewhat more acceptance of Islamic extremism in some segments of the U.S. Muslim public than others. Fewer native-born African American Muslims than others completely condemn al Qaeda. In addition, younger Muslims in the U.S. are much more likely than older Muslim Americans to say that suicide bombing in the defense of Islam can be at least sometimes justified.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16435/right-under-your-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-107668 DLS Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:33:41 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/religion/islam/muslims/moderate-muslims/16435/right-under-your-nose/#comment-107668 <a href="http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=329" rel="nofollow">Pew report on Muslim-Americans</a> ("Mostly Middle-Class and Mainstream; War on Terror[ism] Concerns") Pew report on Muslim-Americans (“Mostly Middle-Class and Mainstream; War on Terror[ism] Concerns”)

]]> By: Sam http://themoderatevoice.com/16435/right-under-your-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-107664 Sam Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:14:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/religion/islam/muslims/moderate-muslims/16435/right-under-your-nose/#comment-107664 erm...second paragraph meant to say hard to believe not hard to dispute. erm…second paragraph meant to say hard to believe not hard to dispute.

]]> By: Sam http://themoderatevoice.com/16435/right-under-your-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-107663 Sam Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:13:35 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/religion/islam/muslims/moderate-muslims/16435/right-under-your-nose/#comment-107663 I think there is a point being missed here. Maybe there is a big outrage over there over the issue, but its certainly a lot less outrage than we saw over things like danish cartoons or trying to prevent a christian convert from being killed. And the main point is that this is the law over there. That woman after being raped was sentenced for not being in the presence of a family member when she went in public. That is a law on the books, and one that apparently is enforced. I don't live in the ME so yea I have only what my various news outlets and blogs relate to me on the experience over there. Maybe I'm getting a skewed version of things, but I find it hard to dispute that a nation that has a law like that in the first place is one where moderates wield influence. Maybe there were huge protests where buildings got burned and people died, moderates going to bat defending the injustice done to this woman, proclaiming their full throated outrage as I have seen the hard liners do whenever someone anywhere in the world mocks Islam. But I doubt it. I think there is a point being missed here. Maybe there is a big outrage over there over the issue, but its certainly a lot less outrage than we saw over things like danish cartoons or trying to prevent a christian convert from being killed. And the main point is that this is the law over there. That woman after being raped was sentenced for not being in the presence of a family member when she went in public. That is a law on the books, and one that apparently is enforced.

I don’t live in the ME so yea I have only what my various news outlets and blogs relate to me on the experience over there. Maybe I’m getting a skewed version of things, but I find it hard to dispute that a nation that has a law like that in the first place is one where moderates wield influence. Maybe there were huge protests where buildings got burned and people died, moderates going to bat defending the injustice done to this woman, proclaiming their full throated outrage as I have seen the hard liners do whenever someone anywhere in the world mocks Islam. But I doubt it.

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