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No, moderate Muslims aren't innocent bistanders. They are the decimated Fur tribe in Sudan, the informants who get parts of their bodies mailed to family members, the women raped by the Taliban and the Northern alliance, the moderate scholars who write books and make lectures only to be shouted down and silenced by the likes of horselady, the translators working for interpol and the FBI, the ones serving in the American military and working for the Department of Defense, the ones serving in our police departments and the police departments in Iraq. They are, in short dying everyday not only without credit, but with people lying and saying that they don't exist or that they can't be trusted, or that they don't do anything. They heal people and build buildings and bridges. They act, they sing, they write books. For all that, they are repeatedly demeaned and dehumanized by bigots.