It’s time we disabuse ourselves of the notion that this thing with radical Muslims is going to come to some kind of a mutually agreeable end, and that civilization is going to have any sway whatsoever over a band of people who insist on remaining in the fourteenth century, and who are, by their own words, quite willing to kill 1000 of their own for the purpose of killing one Jew, or one westerner, particularly Americans.

Absent groups willing to stand up and forcefully identify themselves as not fitting that mold and then proving it by their actions, including putting down the groups that DO fit that mold, the idea of a moderate anything, here, is a pipe dream, and one that will quite probably get many of us killed, trying to pursue it.