Fraser,
It would be well if you made it clear in your immediate comments exactly why you've brought in these definitions. I think I'll try for you, if only to try to head off potential trouble. You need to reiterate at times, your purposes for what you post, and your fundamental disagreement with essential errors of a false religion like Islam, while you are trying to correct caricatures of it.
Early on in the thread, Fraser tried to establish a difference between violent radicals, and their interpretations of Islam, and more mainstream Muslims. The comments he quotes above are what he is representing as the more "stable" views of the majority of Muslims, what he is labeling "orthodoxy".
The persuasiveness of his case it is not my purpose to defend or rebut.
It would be well if you made it clear in your immediate comments exactly why you've brought in these definitions. I think I'll try for you, if only to try to head off potential trouble. You need to reiterate at times, your purposes for what you post, and your fundamental disagreement with essential errors of a false religion like Islam, while you are trying to correct caricatures of it.
Early on in the thread, Fraser tried to establish a difference between violent radicals, and their interpretations of Islam, and more mainstream Muslims. The comments he quotes above are what he is representing as the more "stable" views of the majority of Muslims, what he is labeling "orthodoxy".
The persuasiveness of his case it is not my purpose to defend or rebut.