December 13, 2007

The long, long snipe hunt.

The quest for a moderate Islam turns down a blind alley:
Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, [Turkish Prime Minister] Erdogan commented on the term "moderate Islam", often used in the West to describe AKP and said, 'These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it."
"Why proselytizing in Afghanistan is important." Mark Peters, 8/31/07 (emphasis added).

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