Mainstream Islam

More red flags are going up, and I should think even the eyebrows of terror-loving liberals would rise a little bit.

Yemen has freed one of the terrorists who planned the USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 sailors. BBC:

A Yemeni man convicted of plotting and taking part in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 is to be freed from jail.

Jamal al-Badawi will be kept under effective house arrest after pledging allegiance to Yemen's president.

Badawi was sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in the bombing, but escaped from jail early in 2006. He handed himself in two weeks ago.

The US, which lost 17 sailors in the attack on the Cole, has criticised the decision not to send him back to jail.

This follows on the heels of "moderate" Indonesia's party for the Bali bombers, who were also freed from prison. News.com.au, via LGF:

Convicted Bali nightclub bombers have feasted on kebabs with Indonesia's anti-terrorism chief at an evening party held at his house.

The party, which brought together more than 20 Muslim hardliners and former terrorists who have shown "regret" for their actions, was the latest "soft" strategy in Indonesia's anti-terror campaign to try and turn former militants into informers, or advocates of religious moderation.

"We approach the terrorists with a pure heart," Brigadier General Surya Dharma, the head of Indonesia's anti-terror unit and host of the party, told Associated Press.

"We are all Muslims. We make them our brothers, not our enemy."

Each of these prisoner releases happened either with a strong U.S. ally, or with a "moderate" Muslim state. These people are being released because mainstream Muslims don't have a problem with their actions. Note that there was no outcry among the people of Yemen or Indonesia. None whatsoever. They support it because they've dealt a blow to the "head of the snake" and "the Great Stan". They managed to bloody the noses of the "crusaders".

Please stand up if you still think the problem is limited to a tiny minority of fanatics who follow a perverted version of Islam.