I'm with Keith (Ellison, D-MN) ... it's "Daesh", not Islamic State because: "They are neither...

[Marr]

87. I don't understand your question. I was referring to opinion polling that has shown

strong majority support in the Muslim community for statements like, 'the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists deserved to be prosecuted for drawing cartoons of Muhammad', 'it should be illegal to criticize Islam', and in many places even 'suicide bombing is often a legitimate tactic'.

Fundamentalist views are mainstream views in the Muslim world. Keith Ellison is an outlier here, not the representation of the 'real Islam'. Claiming otherwise is just telling yourself a feel-good story that isn't true.

I don't understand why people insist that these moderate types of people, regardless of religion, who (very sanely) ignore whole swaths of their religious texts, dismissing them as metaphor or allegory or just plain, outdated garbage, are somehow more legitimately pious than people who live their entire lives according to the dictates of their holy book. It's absolutely backward.