"Moderate" Muslims

It's this stuff that has to stop if the West is to "respect and accept" Islam and "moderate" Muslims. (Of course, this dismisses the ding-a-lings who "respect and accept all people and all cultures.")

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090928/AS.Malaysia.Caning.for.Beer/

It's one thing for the radical/extremist fringes like the Taliban, al-Qaida, etc. to do their deeds. It's quite another for "moderate" Muslims to sit by silently and let this kind of stuff happen. That is, unless they agree with it. Then, it's all a different story.

There is no evidence that I've seen that this woman was disorderly, which would also put this in a different light/setting.

There's a Muslim scholar in residence for a couple weeks at MCC. If I get the chance, I will ask her about this. I am curious (not, "yellow" or "blue") to discover what she has to say.

This is the 21st Century, not a thousand years ago. I maintain that it is the acceptance of the ideas of the Enlightenment by the West and not by other parts of the world that have allowed it to develop into the place that it has (freedoms, equality, etc.). Islam has not so accepted the Enlightenment ideas. That's why we still get the story that "virgins" await martyrs in paradise.
(Again, only the ding-a-lings would "respect and accept" such a thing/belief, right?)

I suppose this makes me intolerant or some other pejorative....but accepting such beliefs would make me "enlightened." Guess what I choose to be...?