Is ‘moderate Islam’ an oxymoron?.
tl;dr : Yes, it is.
The author does a great job of elaborating on a theory I’ve held to be true for quite some time. If any degrees in a religion exist, and this seems to be especially true for Islam, they are very much a question of whether one follows a religion and therefore belongs to it or whether one simply wears a label without following a religion.
Mind you, the same also applies in Christianity where many false prophets with many sheeple ruin the good name of Jesus, but that’s a whole lot more complex.