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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Argh. I think you are being deliberately dense.

This is not about who has a "tight relationship" with the bombers. They are too far gone. The way to deal with them is a bullet.

This is about who has influence with the community from which those bombers come -- a frightfully large number of which seem to support those bombers.

Once again -- community leaders need to speak against the wrongful acts committed by members of their community and in the name of their community. Whether the community is a country, a faith, a political party, or whatever else. We have seen shamefully little of that from Muslim leaders.

This business of attacking moderates for not speaking out more against extremists is not useful. I would suggest that attacking moderates for being on the side of terrorists does strengthen them, or induce them to speak out more. It does tend to lump them all together at a point when we ought to be finding ways to marginalize the extremists. And it's a sort of cheap talking point that the fighting keyboardists can use to prove how tough they are on terrorism. I agree that it would be a better world if the moderate Muslims spoke out more. If the question is, how do we strengthen moderates Muslims so that they will speak out more, I'm not sure what the right answer is, but I feel fairly comfortable that this isn't it.