Reading this article made me realize what disturbs me when we have these radical Islamic attacks. When they happen, we have the news stories about Bin Laden, Hamas, Iraq and other places where there is strong support for attacking the US and Western Culture and Christianity. If we make noises about feeling anti-Arab or anti-Muslim we are correctly warned about allowing a bias against a group to become a racist blinding that could cause prejudicial behavior against innocents both here and abroad. OK, I can accept this, but I still have a problem.

Where are their co-religious clerics who are willing to criticize these heinous actions? Yes, we sometimes hear from our domestic Islamic community and maybe, depending upon the notoriety of the attack, Islamic Governments. What we don't hear is other foreign Islamic Clerics, Mosques or leaders who are willing to condem what we are so frequently told is Un-Islamic behavior.

Here in the West, if a religious leader or community behaves this way, there is an immediate outcry against the perpetuators from all sides. Look at our local most famous terrorist, Timothy McVeigh. The militia movements that he drew moral support from have been reduced to shamed silence and have, at best, barely 10-20% of the old membership.

Faced with this lack of outside condemnation of Islamic Extremists, what are we to believe? I can think of a series of choices;
1. Our vaunted news media is failing to find these Islamic moderates.
2. These moderate Islamacists are afraid to criticize these attacks.
3. These moderate Islamacist do not exist in the Islamic World.

So what am I missing here? I hope that there is something because I distinctly do NOT like the conclusions that this is leading me to, that there is no truely peaceful Islam!

Obviously while I was writing my extensive comment on this, another enterprising Freeper already posted it ! That'll teach me to be deliberative! Not HERE! Here is the link.

I'm nervous to say what I feel. While we practice "tolerance" and "diversity" (through force of law) our adversaries continue to persecute anyone different from them.

Islam knows no "diversity."
Islam knows no "multiculturalism."
Islam knows no "tolerance of other's beliefs."
Islam knows only to conquer, subjugate and enslave.

Don't believe me? It is all in the Koran. Read it.

I believe what you say about Islam is true. But what did our government do in the name of Islam in Kosovo to the Christian Serbs. How many orthodox churches lay in ruins thanks to NATO and muslims in Kosovo.

Where was the moral outcry from Americans at that time?

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Where was the moral outcry from Americans at that time?

Snuffed and silenced by the Clinton Administration.

Here is an intersting Hindu view on the beauty of Islam. Their hatred of everyone else is all in the Koran. Read it.