Moderate Muslims: a new service
Many columnists in newspapers, blogs and other media often becry the lack of response from 'moderate Muslims' condemning their less moderate brethen say something puportedly controversial.Some brave souls have pointed out that the reason most Muslims don't do this is because to do would be 'monumentally weird' and ' that the vast majority of Muslims presumably and correctly suspect that when you're dealing with the kind of person who starts pointing at things you didn't do and demands that you sign their statement condemning whoever did them, then nothing you say is ever going to be good enough for them'.
However this doesn't seem to be good enough for most people, who continue to shout and demand moderate Muslims speak out. Hence my plan for a new service - Moderate Muslims' Immoderate Muslim Notification Service (MMIMNS). For a fee of £100 a year I will email 'moderate' Muslims any interviews, speeches, actions or events that 'immoderate' Muslims have done, so that 'moderate' Muslims can, to keep everyone happy, quickly condemn them and then get on with their lives. For £250 a year I'll do a 'premium' service, which will save 'moderate' Muslims even the bother of condemning their 'immoderate' cousins by condemning the acts on their behalf. For £500 a year I will just condemn everything, every day (ok...Peter Cuthbertson already does this one for free) on their behalf to ensure nothing slips through.
If it is a success I will spread the net to Christians who fail to codemn Iain Paisley's latest outbursts.
posted by Matthew @ 1/16/2004 12:25:00 AM
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