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November 24, 2003

The Peril to the Moderate

The Peril to the Moderate Moslem - As we said Friday - the most dangerous thing to be when it comes to terrorism is a moderate Moslem.

Matthew Gutman sums it up in the Jerusalem Post:

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon immediately released a statement following the second twin bombings in Turkey in the space of a week, that Islamic violence threatens the free world. But Turkey experts quickly warned Thursday that even at a greater risk are states that make up the small bloc of moderate Arab/Islamic states.

"Al Qaida is concentrating more and more on the moderate or pro-Western states it considers heretical," said a senior security source, "like Jordan, Egypt Morocco, and especially Turkey." In a recently broadcast statement that could be called a "State of the Jihad" address, Osama Bin Laden listed attacking moderate Islamic or Arab states third after Jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan, the security source said.

Al Qaida seems intensely focused on states like Turkey because far more than Israel, or "US-Zionist imperialism," as the phrase goes, Islamic fundamentalists are threatened by moderate Islamic and pro-western states, said the security source.

This is a hugely important point - one that most Americans just don't realize. The policy among Moslem radicals, going back to the 1920s, is to kill the moderates first. Then the infidels.

Posted by Mitch at November 24, 2003 06:02 AM
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