Given all this, and amid the growing sectarian bloodshed, the voices of religious moderates like Ayatollah Sistani are increasingly falling on deaf ears.

Harris claims that religious moderates appear to be blinded to the reality of what fundamentalists truly believe.

It was religious moderates and liberals, active in groups like the Interfaith Alliance and People for the American Way, who perceived that voters were disillusioned with the impeach-Clinton approach.

Now Mr. Faroque is at the center of a bitter rift that has split the Bangladeshi community in Kensington into camps of religious moderates and conservatives.

Religion: Reformation: revolt of the religious moderates against the early religion.

Many of the most visible groups representing religious moderates and liberals are distributing materials that do not mention the candidates.

Although fiercely opposed by religious moderates - most notably Yale president Ezra Stiles - he was elected to the presidency of Yale on Stiles's death in 1795.

Just as Republicans have to appeal to religious conservatives but move beyond them, Democrats have to appeal to the secular left but also build a bridge to religious moderates.

And we should be careful about language around religious "moderates".

Every religion has its own form of fundamentalism and the first victims of such fundamentalism are often the religious moderates of those same religions.