Why was the US Muslim community stone, cold, silent in the days, weeks and months after the events...?

Question

of 9/11. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world according to some sources. In the US however it's still much smaller than Christianity. Isn't it up to the more reasonable members of a (relatively unknown) religion to step up and make it clear that they in no way supported the actions of the murderous radicals who claimed that they did what a good Muslim should do? My Muslim housemates also fell silent with me (I ascribe to no organized religion btw)! They avoided me and did not want to discuss the issue at all. They did complain in approx. December of that year that they were “sick of hearing on the news about the hunt for Bin Ladin”. (I just glared when that was said.). Anyone know the possible reasons that less radical members of the Muslim community fell silent and did not openly publicly condemn the terrorist's actions or address the topic at all?

Bystander and Marissa I don't think you read my post. You keep blaming the media in your answers. Didn't I mention that I live with several Muslim people who were also silent? I perhaps need to mention that I know their families and they also gave me weird looks when I would ask "Any idea why this happened?" Did they say because the terrorist are not true Muslims or that violence in Islam is wrong. Nope...they changed the subject. And that has nothing to do with the media these are people that I know personally!

Answer 1

I think all Muslims everywhere dropped to their knees and praised Allah the second after 9/11 happened. Everyone else was to preoccupied with the scenes on TV to notice.

Answer 2

If we take for a minute that your housemates are a representative sample of the thoughts of (moderate) USA Muslims, then there are two possibilities....one is that they were embarrased by 9/11 and felt powerless do do anything at all about it....the other is that they actually supported it and were happy that over 3000 innocent people (including other Muslims) were killed and the USA was taught a lesson. Do they attend mosque? That is probably where the answer to your question lies. I believe that most Imams sprout the most vitriolic ant-Western drivel, week after week and your housemates have to listen to this. I hate to say this, but with Muslim housemates...watch your back and clear the place of all knives and other sharp instruments! Remember that even if you are not religious, in their eyes you are an infidel and we all know what the punishment is for that!

Answer 3

The Muslim community was absolutely not silent. Please get your facts straight.

Here is a list of articles about Muslim organizations, leaders, and individuals who condemned the attacks:

http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php

Here is a direct link to one of the articles published the day after the attacks outlining Muslim condemnation across America:

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-09/13/article1.shtml

Answer 4

there are schlolars and some clerics who condemn all these acts, but their voices are not reaching u for 2 reasons -- one those corrupted mullahs or imaams and ur dear media is not putting them in spotlight.

for the link of muslims scholars and some clerics condemning terrorism globally please check out this link. but u are blinded by ur media & would completely ignore this, all u can see is the hate becoz even u love it. u want a reason to degrade islam and muslims, so u wont go a couple of steps to get to know the thruth.
http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.p...

its not that muslims are not doing anything, they had rallies in USA on 911 , they rallied and banned DaVinciCode and they have condemed many terrorist attacks, but the media is always hiding things from us. now i wonder why the media would do this, but this is the thruth.
http://www.crescentlife.com/heal%20the%20world/muslim_reactions_to_sept_11.htm
http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichment...
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/1...

we rallied and banned -- Da Vinci Code -- when u were paying more than what needed from ur pockets to watch the premeire. we cant take anything against anyone -- be it Moses, Abraham, Noah, Jesus or Muhammed-pbut. they are same and equal for us.

Answer 5

Because the rate of racist crimes against muslims are on the rise in ur country if u dont happen to know...in my part of the world we've seen American Muslims expressing their rejection of what happened , how come u , as an American, dont know?!!!!!!!!

Does it have to do with media bias?
well, in case you still doubt muslims condemn what happened, I'm telling u loud and clear, they do....no true Muslim supports violence.

Answer 6

Each muslim is pregnant with the wish of converting whole world to Islam and i found no muslim openly opposing islamic terrorists

Even by their silence, they are actually backing the idea of Jehad

Mother Nature is keepin an eye on them!!!