CarolC I agree with you that moderate Muslims are not a problem - though I think that the relative centre of gravity in Islam means that a 'moderate' Muslim looks pretty fundamentalist through western eyes compared with his/her equivalent in most other religions, (unless you wish to look at US Christians in isolation from their co-religionists, as you constantly do). In other words, define 'moderate', especially with regard to women's rights.
   But where can you find a majority Muslim country where the 'moderate' Muslims predominate over their unrefined brethren, as, for example, moderate Christians do in Australia, Britain Canada, Russia, South Africa, maybe even the U.S. etc, etc? In Afghanistan? In Pakistan? In the Gulf States? In Algeria? In Egypt? In Morocco? In Tunisia? In Indonesia? Maybe in Turkey where the European influence is strong (would you really want to be a woman in Turkey - as far as your religion-defined status goes I mean?). Do you see what I'm saying? Muslims who are 'moderate' as Westerners define the word are pretty thin on the ground compared with almost every other religious group. They tend to exist in small, rather besieged elites in big cities and in the west, where, as Dianavan has pointed out, they have gone to seek the freedoms unobtainable at home.

I am not here to attack you, by the way. I am here to argue a legitimate point. The little list that Wolfgang has posted seems to indicate that I am the one being 'slapped'. (sniffle sob!)