criteria to be a moderate muslim you have to fulfill and answer the following questions according to RAND corporations: 1-Does the group (or individual) support or condone violence? If it does not support or condone violence now, has it supported or condoned it in the past? 2-Does it support democracy? And if so, does it define democracy broadly in terms of individual rights? 3-Does it support internationally recognized human rights? 4-Does it make any exceptions (e.g., regarding freedom of religion)? 5-Does it believe that changing religions is an individual right? 6-Does it believe the state should enforce the criminal-law component of shari’a? 7-Does it believe the state should enforce the civil-law component of shari’a? Or does it believe there should be non-shari’a options for those who prefer civil-law matters to be adjudicated under a secular legal system? 8-Does it believe that members of religious minorities should be entitled to the same rights as Muslims? 9-Does it believe that a member of a religious minority could hold high political office in a Muslim majority country? 10-Does it believe that members of religious minorities are entitled to build and run institutions of their faith (churches and synagogues) in Muslim majority countries? 11-Does it accept a legal system based on nonsectarian legal principles? from report (building moderate muslim networks) chapter five page 69.
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