Moderate Muslim

Moderate Muslim and Moderate Islam are terms that are used within religious and political discourse to interpret the faith that promotes democracy, human rights, and religious tolerance, while strictly denouncing violent extremism to describe the obverse of Islamic extremism and imply that supporting Islamic terrorism is the characteristic of extremist groups within Islam. The moderate Muslims denounce extremist violence such as Islamic terrorism, Jihadism and radical Islamism. The general criticism of this term is that it implies that the "Islam" and "Muslim" refer to something inherently violent, giving the impression that they need an adjective ("moderate") to assure otherwise.

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