Daniel Pipes argues that "if militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution…." He then goes on to offer specific questions to identify moderate Muslims. Some of his suggested questions:

• May Muslims convert to other religions?
• When Islamic customs conflict with secular laws (e.g., covering the face for drivers’ license pictures), which should give way?
• Do you see Muslims who disagree with you as having fallen into unbelief?
• Do you accept that Western countries are majority-Christian and secular or do you seek to transform them into majority-Muslim countries ruled by Islamic law?

Notice that these questions all at their heart are asking, "Do you really believe the Koran to be true?"

In Christianity, we have a name for people who don’t believe the Bible means what it says: Liberals. Those who say the Bible means what it says, and our lives should be governed by Scripture are called Conservatives or Evangelicals. In Pipes definition, the Islamic Moderate equates to the Christian Liberal, and the Militant Islamic equates to the Conservative Christian.

Doesn’t it say something that the people who believe the Koran are the ones who are militant, and the ones who don’t believe it are peaceful? Why do people keep telling us that Islam is a "Religion of Peace"?