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First and foremost, CAIR is quite possibly the Wahabbis propaganda arm in the US, yet they too issued a condemnation. You must have missed it

I've been following this story since 9/11, and I saw the statements, I wondered why they did not make it to the mainstream media.

The easy way out is to take the attitude that whatever a Muslim may say that goes against our pre-conceived notion of all Muslims is a lie (how incredibly convenient), that's just not the case.

Go to this site, and read up on some of their documents on extremism.

There are hundreds of millions of Muslims living in the world today that would no more consider raping a woman, than you or I, the extremists wish us to see them all as they paint them...after all, bin Laden's goal is to start a world-wide religious war.

BTW, while 80% of all Arabs are Muslims, 80% of all Muslims are not Arabs.

Lois, as you may know from my previous posts, I would like to see tolerance among religions and do not rush to cast the stone.

And I have not cast the stone against Islam here either. Fistly, I spoke of political organizations in the U.S., not the private beliefs of the Muslims. But just as an average German was tolerant to, if not inpired by, the Nazis, the average Muslim in the United States is at least tolerant of people that represent him.

As for the statements issued, of course I could've missed something! But you also appear to have missed my point: I spoke of condamnations without ifs and buts. Yet, even the link you give me says that the statement "contained in part." This appears to be typical: the complete statements are without a date (issued much later, as damage control), and those dated Sep 11 are given only "in part" (because most of them contained references to our failed "Middle Eastern policies" that should make us "understand" the hijackers; you know full well that this has been reateated of every talk showe for about a month, until they understood that this was not good PR).

No need to lecture me on the difference between Muslims and Arabs: I myself indicated the difference by referring to the Turkish Association, the members of which are Muslim and also great patriots of this country. Similarly, when I referrred to cultural traits, I was careful to speak of ARabs and not Muslims.

I thank you for the link to your interview. The tape appears to be 2h-long, so I"ll listen when I have more time. Regards, TQ.