If the worst that polemecists like Juan Cole can come up with is that MEMRI looks for inflammatory things and publishes them, the fact that they find some many things all over the place proves my point.

Islamic moderates are few and far between, and generally not actually located in Islamic states. Consider also the fact that Rushdie is STILL in hiding from the fatwa in the 80s. The small number of sensible moderates have a lot of work to do...