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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Schwartz Mistaken on “Moderate Islam” by Thomas Haidon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Nonetheless, he believes that moderate Muslims and moderate Islam has existed throughout Muslim history, and that the only barrier to true moderation is the cancer of Wahabbism. |
 | | Furthermore, a mere return, to pre-Wahabbi Islamic thought, even if that construct could be construed as moderate, without addressing the rationale behind the ideological shift from it to Wahabbism does nothing to adequately protect Islam from a future Wahabbi hijacking. |
 | | What is required, is not a return to the so-called "glory days" of Islam, where a limited form of pluralism and discourse existed, but the removal of the man made doctrines that allowed Islam to succumb to Wahabbism. |
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