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A Blooming Islamic Reformation?

Maybe. In Morocco:

“We need our people to know the real West…to understand that the West ain’t no angel, but it ain’t no demon either,” Abaddi said, attempting a Western accent, at a private dinner in a Washington, D.C., suburb last week. “[This effort] is not a luxury. We are not being pressured to do it. We are trying to train responsible people to live in dangerous times.”

“Our world is threatening to destroy itself,” he noted, citing apocalyptic rhetoric coming out of Tehran, Iran’s nuclear program, radical Islamic terrorism, AIDS, and severe global poverty. “Morocco can help bring about peace. I think the Moroccan model is practical and helpful. It communicates an entirely different concept of Islam to the rest of the world….I personally can’t sit back and do nothing. After all, there is an Arab proverb that says, ‘Don’t be a mute Satan.’ I feel compelled to do everything I can to make a better world.”

It's not perfect, as the article describes, but it's an encouraging step.

Posted by Rand Simberg at May 09, 2006 07:29 PM
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Finally a follower of Mohamed (that’s not a woman) is at least attempting to bring some common sense to the table. If the Islamic world continues to sit by an allow loonies it be the mouthpiece for their culture it is only a matter of time and a few more acts of violence against the west, before we as a group will see them as a problem. When that happens…Well ask the Germans, or the Japanese how it will play out. There are no innocents when you allow evil to hide amongst you.

Posted by JJS at May 10, 2006 11:38 AM

"There are no innocents when you allow evil to hide amongst you."

How very Christian of you.

Posted by Shubber Ali at May 13, 2006 02:51 PM


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