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FLORIDA -- It's true. Many Muslims do condemn terrorism - we just don't hear about it in the American news media.

Yet Americans continue to ask: "Why don't Muslims condemn terrorism? We keep waiting for the so-called moderates to speak out against violence and yet no one comes forward." A man in the audience asked me this question recently when I was invited to speak at a Unitarian Fellowship about what Arabs think about the US and Americans. I had just finished saying that many of the Arab people I interviewed for my book a year ago in Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait had condemned fanatics like Osama Bin Laden.

Perhaps the man wasn't listening. And honestly, what if many Muslims condemn terrorism day in and day out? Will this make terrorism go away? I speak to the public several times a month and at half these events the same question is repeated....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539736/posts

2007-04-15 12:01:07 · 4 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Ask why two local newspapers in southwest Florida did not cover a three-lecture series on Islam given by a Muslim Palestinian American woman in a Jewish synagogue. Is it because the exchange was civil? Is it because we disagreed amicably? Should we have thrown stones at each other to make the event worthy of coverage?

A year ago I spoke to a group of humanists who complained that the media refused to cover the event. No wonder people still ask me why American Muslims do not participate in interfaith dialogue. We do participate, but we receive little or no news media coverage.

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2007-04-15 12:02:22 · update #1

4 answers

i condemn terrorism apartheid repression, no matter who do it, the state, the superpower, or an individual. one wonders why the western media is so selective and narrow about what it shows about Islam. Yet here we show Christians on tv and interviews with their leaders with an neutral approach, neither positive or negative, just the facts, basically fair balanced. even al jazerra shows video of a lady who says Islam is evil and condemn Islam, al jazerra is looking more balanced then the western media

2007-04-15 12:04:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4 1

last friday I sat at a table with a 40 year old hindu from Asia, a 25 year old muslim from afganistan, a 23 year old atheist from switzerland and I'm a 20 year old american pagan. We discussed at leingth out countries and theisms, and I discovered something awesome!
I have yet to meet any one that likes terrorism.
No really!
True story!!
Do you know any one? Even one person who has ever said "Oh look, I can go kill a bunch of unsuspecting people! YEAY!!! *BLAM*" I doubt it. What's the point of this btw?
Especially the Afgani, they personally hate that it's not safe to cross their border without the great risk of an ambush.

2007-04-15 19:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Hit me with it 3 · 3 0

If only the Moderates were as active in doing good as the Radicals are active in doing bad. It would certainly send a message to those who want to destroy all those who disagree with them.

2007-04-15 19:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 1 1

This. Is. Getting. Old.

2007-04-15 19:04:37 · answer #4 · answered by toedechameau 2 · 1 4

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