Islam - "Moderate" Muslim uprsing on the way?

Yesterday, I posted about a possible "moderate" Muslim uprising.

I also recently posted about "moderate" Muslims taking the clash of civilizations to the heart of the Muslim world.

After giving Muslim terrorists all the voice and support they want, it's nice to see the New York Times giving some voice to the other side.

For those on the Left who clam Islam is the religion of peace, the NYT headline says it all. "For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats".

Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.

Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die.

In the interview, which has been viewed on the Internet more than a million times and has reached the e-mail of hundreds of thousands around the world, Dr. Sultan bitterly criticized the Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries.

She said the world's Muslims, whom she compares unfavorably with the Jews, have descended into a vortex of self-pity and violence.

Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and barbarism, a battle that the forces of violent, reactionary Islam are destined to lose.

In response, clerics throughout the Muslim world have condemned her, and her telephone answering machine has filled with dark threats. But Islamic reformers have praised her for saying out loud, in Arabic and on the most widely seen television network in the Arab world, what few Muslims dare to say even in private.

Which promted this from Glenn.

"Of course, that they're afraid to say it proves her point about barbarism. Bless her for realizing -- as so many of our leaders do not -- that appeasing the barbarians is a mistake."

Yes it does.
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