Moderate Muslims and Bigfoot..

I believe that moderate Muslims are not only insignificant in number but also in power in their respective countries and organizations. In fact, I believe that the folktale of the Moderate Muslim Majority to be about as factual as Bigfoot.

We always hear about not "offending" or "upsetting" the moderate Muslim by thoughtless generalized comments about Islam. But when I saw the twin towers fall, their silence was deafening. When homicide bombers blow up cafes, restaurants or school buses in Israel, again, nothing was said by this silent majority. When the London bombings occurred where was the anger, the outrage? Where were the calls for the immediate deportation of their clerics of hate in London? Yet, we are to believe if an infidel was to attack a mosque or another Muslim, regardless of it's justification, this exceedingly silent, sleeping giant would overwhelm it's attacker either by force (by joining the ranks of the homicide bombers) or via the polling booth. This beckons the question "If they are this sleeping giant disgusted by the actions of those who would pervert their religion of peace (as they have told us in the shadows of the night in a fearful whisper) where are they?" Why do they not control their people? Why do they not overwhelm the radicals that have poisoned their faith? And if their only options are to either remain silent or join the ranks of the mob does it really matter if we fight 100,000 or 200,000? For it takes only a small handful of radicals to deliver a successful attack. I say this because a silent, useless, fearful and impotent ally, is no ally at all. I believe that the moderate Muslim is a dying breed and far smaller in number than we are led to believe. It is far more illustrious and prestigious to blow yourself up with as may infidels as is possible in front of your fellow Muslims than to hold hands with the infidel while singing "All we are saying is give peace a chance." The largest growing ranks of homicide bombers are young men, between the ages of 18-35. As they grow up, they see their friends and family march in protests supporting Hamas or Al-Quada. They see friends and family firing weapons into the air while screaming death to this, and death to that. They see their friends and family burning American, Israeli and European flags. Then to solidify the glory of killing the infidel, they go to the local mosque and hear a respected cleric praise the protestors and immortalize the dead homicide bombers for their acts against the Great Satan. I have seen countless young boys (10-15) yelling insults at the West, firing weapons and wearing the outfits of a homicide bomber anxious to become a part of the destruction of the cursed infidel nations.
Here are a few quotes from the “Religion of Peace”.
Koran IX. 5-6: Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them.
Koran 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”
Bukhari:V4B52N220 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been made victorious with terror.”
Ishaq:326 “If you come upon them, deal so forcibly as to terrify those who would follow, that they may be warned. Make a severe example of them by terrorizing Allah’s enemies.”
Koran 4:143 “O believers! Take not infidels for friends rather than believers. Would you furnish God with clear right to punish you?”
Koran 5:56 O Beleivers! Take not the Jews or Christians as friends. They are but one another's friends. If any one of you takes them for his friends, he surely is one of them!
Koran 9:85 Never pray you over anyone of them who dies, or stand at his grave, because they believed not in God and His Apostle, and died in their wickedness.
Koran 9:124 Believers! Wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbors, and let them find you rigorous.

Many in the Western World try to apply Western common sense to Middle Eastern beliefs and this does not work. Muslim countries are controlled by their religion and the clerics are the mouth pieces of their religion. The average Muslim has FAR more respect and admiration for their clerics, than we, in the West, have for our local preachers. Could we in America have a protest involving hundreds of thousands people with short notice at the urging of one man and one man alone. I am certain we could not. Yet Muqtada al-Sadr or Ali al- Sistani both in Iraq have done just that, without going on T.V, running ads or advertising the event months in advance. The average Muslim believes it to be their duty to obey the orders of the cleric as he is the mouth piece of Allah on earth. The sooner we accept that their actions (past/present and future) are because of their religion, and their hatred of us is because of their religion, the better off we shall all be.