Excuse me,we are the moderate camp. We are the ones who want to achieve the two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

But council members began distancing themselves from al-Shabab extremists after moderate Islamist cleric Sharif Sheik Ahmed was elected in January to lead a new unity government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Matt Bennett is Vice President of Third Way, a self-described moderate think tank.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

But al-Shabab, which follows an ultra-conservative form of Islam, opposes the moderate version of Islamic law the president and his U.N.-supported government are likely to put in place.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"If it goes country-club blue-blood moderate, it is going to lose.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

In a deal backed by the United Nations, a moderate leader of the Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, was elected president of the Mogadishu-based Somali government earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16