Moderate Islam

Let's look at some basic facts:

- 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, roughly 23% of the world population
- Around 40 countries in that population use Sharia Law as The Law. This varies from federal to state to civil jurisdiction. Pretty much every country with a majority Islamic population implements some degree of Sharia Law, although none implement the whole thing.
- Sharia Law - a completely religious bound law-code where homosexuals are defined as not innocent, being a non-believer is a crime (for which the penalty is death), men can have multiple wives (but women cannot have multiple husbands), the penalty for petty theft is dismemberment, and many other horrors you would have heard about (most around the issue of women having their agency completely removed and belonging to their husband)
- This is The Law, not simply some ridiculous passages in a religious book that is largely dismissed (as with Leviticus in Christianity, for example)
- Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Mauritania, Sudan, Iraq, Maldives, Afghanistan, Qatar, Yemen, Nigeria & Indonesia practise Sharia at the federal level. The combined population of these countries is around 674 million people - a little over a 1/3rd of the entire Muslim Population. (yes, not everyone in those countries is Muslim, but everyone in those countries is submitted to Sharia Law)

So "moderate". How do you define that? To me moderate means the middle opinion - the one held by the middle-ground between the progressive and the radicals. You're talking about a religion where most Muslims are submitted to some degree of practises we in the West would consider straight-up Medieval. The above doesn't sound like the "moderate" Islam that Islam apologists talk about.