We have derided them for three years for not apologizing or owning up to responsibility. If they are sincere, then this is a good thing. It's about time the rational elements started speaking out. I have spent a lot of time in the middle east and the majority of the people were quite decent. This in no way means I don't want the perpetrators to pay severely but if moderates are now coming out with a voice and mean it, we need to respect that.
Do not be fooled by this action by a few Muslims. Just like in every battle in Afghanistan and Iraq, when backed in a corner, Muslims asked for "time-out" so they could "negotiate" a surrender. Well, that is how Osama Bin-Lyin' got away, Mullah Omar and all of the others got away like that as well. You cannot trust a Muslim. Their first allegiance is to any other Muslim before any infidel.
I have had many clients who worked as executives in the oil industry in the Middle East. They all said that in Muslim society, the ability to deceive another for your benefit is considered an asset. (Civilized people call it lying.) To Muslims, written business contracts are only a means to keep the other party in line while you cheat them any way that you can. Basically, you can't trust a Muslim any further than you can smell them.
There are estimated to be 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. Of that number, 10% identify themselves as Islamists......150 million! The remainder of Islam does one or more of the following: supports the Islamists financially, supports the Islamists by giving them social groups to fit in around the world, supports them with forged documents, supports them by giving them access to weapons, supports them by giving them shelter, support clerics who call for murder of infidels, supports radical schools that teach that it is Allah's wish to kill infidels......and those who do not do these things make excuses for those who do.
Islam is nothing but a terrorist cult. It is not a religion. I hope enough people open their eyes and demand that oour legislators take action to declare Islam to be a terrorist organization. Only then can we fight an effective war on terror.
As a final note:
Can you name a single Christian minister who has stood up in his church and told his followers to go out and kill?