The Muslim Moderates

[zarq]

I keep asking where the Muslim moderates are. Well, some are speaking out.

Reject violence for peace: Excerpts of the keynote address by Kuala Lampur's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the International Conference “Who Speaks for Islam? Who Speaks for the West?”

Statement from the Progressive Muslim Union of North America (

Comments

[rparvaaz]

Heh. I just took a brief break from the Indo-Pak one-day and got both your messages at about the same time. Since I was already having this discussion with someone else, I had a bit of information about the reaction. Some of it might have been covered in your links but right now I don't have the time to check them all out. So I'll just post the entire lot here and answer the rest of your first comment later. :)

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Reactions of Indian muslims

Tariq Ramadan's much publicised interview

What would Muhammed do?

Imam rejects Muslim rioting"What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber... . ?" : Momani, the Jordan editor who was fired and then arrested

[xiphias]

But Ahmed Abu Laban is the Muslim troll who GOT everyone into this position! He's the one who brought out the made-up cartoons. While Jyllands-Posten did have some vaguely offensive cartoons, the one with Muhammed with a bomb in his turban is about as bad as it got. The additional cartoons and photos -- Muhammed dressed up as a pig, Muhammed being sodomized by dogs -- those were all entirely made up, and distributed, I believe, by Imam Ahmed abu Laban.

I mean, sure, I believe that he didn't actually intend for stuff to get to violence -- but he's the guy that made this happen. Well, one of the guys. Rosen, the editor of Jyllands-Posten is the other. I consider them both to be trolling flamewar-seeking agitators.

[rparvaaz]

Yep, Laban is the one alright. He was also caught saying one thing to the English press and another to the Arabic press.