Muslims and peace...

[_Ray A]

Thanks Ray.

The girl in the middle is actually my sister-in-law and those are her two boys. I flew to Rio to pick them up and drive them back here to live with us. That was an adventure on 900 miles of Brazilian roads. But the scenery was amazing.

It was spooky how she looked so much like my wife. I had never met her before. The two little ones are mine.

Anyway, here are the other albums so you can see what I am talking about.

http://kevingraham.org/gallery/

Coulda fooled me, because I saw the pics of your wife and kids on your site, and they are amazingly alike, your wife and sister-in-law. Your wife is a beautiful woman, which you mentioned on ZLMB years ago. Good to see such a human side to some of our posters. After all, we is all zombie posters with screen names, until we see pics like this. Thanks for posting those.

[_dartagnan]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains why moderate Muslims have little or no traction in the Islamic world.

Q. Have you seen any ideology coming from within Islam that gives young Muslims a sense of purpose without the overlay of militancy?

A. They have no alternative message. There is no active missionary work among the youth telling them, do not become jihadis. They do not use media means as much as the jihadis. They simply — they’re reactive and they don’t seem to be able to compete with the jihadis. And every time there is a debate between a real jihadi and, say, what we have decided to call moderate Muslims, the jihadis win. Because they come with the Koran and quotes from the Koran. The come with quotes from the Hadith and the Sunnah, and the traditions of the prophet. And every assertion they make, whether it is that women should be veiled, or Jews should be killed, or Americans are our enemies, or any of that, they win. Because what they have to say is so consistent with what is written in the Koran and the Hadith. And what the moderates fail to do is to say, listen, that’s all in there, but that wasn’t meant for this context. And we have moved on. We can change the Koran, we can change the Hadith. That’s what’s missing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weeki ... ref=slogin