Muslim troubles and Muslim solutions

I'm wondering why the Muslim/ Arab community of the world is seemingly not doing much to control the extremists among them. The extremists are in the minority (vastly, I believe) but they are very up-front in the world-perception of Islam. Where are the Muslim/Arab PR campaigns to change this view? They could make at least a token effort to stand up and say, "This thinking is a distorted view of our religion; these extremists are wrecking the image of our culture and defaming Allah."

We in the US were treated to a US-led 'Saudis are our good friends' campaign; where are the Muslim voices of anguish decrying the nutjobs amongst them? :(

Sorry if this issue has been covered in other threads but I haven't seen them...

[Kodiak]

Originally posted by Thorin LungHammer
I'm wondering why the Muslim/ Arab community of the world is seemingly not doing much to control the extremists among them. The extremists are in the minority (vastly, I believe) but they are very up-front in the world-perception of Islam. Where are the Muslim/Arab PR campaigns to change this view? They could make at least a token effort to stand up and say, "This thinking is a distorted view of our religion; these extremists are wrecking the image of our culture and defaming Allah."

We in the US were treated to a US-led 'Saudis are our good friends' campaign; where are the Muslim voices of anguish decrying the nutjobs amongst them? :(

Sorry if this issue has been covered in other threads but I haven't seen them...

All is not hunky-dorey in the Arab world...


Check out the article in my thread... (http://66.192.47.137/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15047)

Yah, I saw that... who recalls Nassar's 'pan-Arab' unity attempts?

We heard some Muslims interviwed after 9/11 saying the right things, but where are they now? They should be loudly decrying the lunatics that are so busy giving their religion a bad name. The relative lack of this is... not telling, but troubling.

[corplinx]

The majority of people in the US are "white". So, you can expect them all to collude together, right? Wrong. English, French, German, Slavic, Scandinavian, Baltic, Greek, Italtian: white is a collection of different groups and mixes of them.

Same for muslims. Watch what happens when we free Iraq. The Shiite south will want to form its own theocracy in the south. The northern Kurds will want to do the same or join Iran. Its hard enough for different sects of Islam to tolerate each other, much less group together and stamp out terrorism.

Probably looking at this in an overly-simplistic way. I just see a problem, and a great host of people who could stand up against the minority view who have trodden on the religion they cherish. There are so many Muslims, I cannot believe the mainstream voices won't organise themselves to face the crisis. It would do so much good...

[Advocate]

Originally posted by corplinx
The majority of people in the US are "white". So, you can expect them all to collude together, right? Wrong. English, French, German, Slavic, Scandinavian, Baltic, Greek, Italtian: white is a collection of different groups and mixes of them.

Same for muslims. Watch what happens when we free Iraq. The Shiite south will want to form its own theocracy in the south. The northern Kurds will want to do the same or join Iran. Its hard enough for different sects of Islam to tolerate each other, much less group together and stamp out terrorism.

I think a closer comparison would be to Christians in the US and abroad. Christianity has been used by both supporters and opponents of war to justify their position. From what I can tell from talking to Muslims I know and seeing what gets reported in the news, Islam can also be used to both support and oppose war, terrorism, or just about any political viewpoint. It all depends which verses you favor over the others.