[TexKat]

What is the reason for their distress? The "violence" is being committed by lunatics who are using the Muslim faith as a basis for their actions. Are they going to condem these killers and demand their elimination? If so good for them. If they are just hand wringing and whining forget about them.

Let God judge what Muslims did in the past, suggests Maher Hathout, senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

"We cannot be buried in a big graveyard called the past," he said. "We have to negotiate our future and improve our present."

For American Muslims, that means looking for ways to influence U.S. policy, he said.

"As an American I feel that our policy needs to be questioned," he said. To do that, he said, Muslim Americans need to hold their government accountable.

But Torrance physician Nazir U. Khaja, chairman of the Islamic Information Service, said that even as Muslim Americans speak up and hold their government accountable, they need to remember the power of prayer.

[Americanexpat]

In other words the government needs to surrender to the Muslims, that has been their plan all along.