Nice essay, but the reason you posted it was presumably because it says something few other Muslims say. That's what so disheartening about this whole aspect. The fact that 19 crazies flew airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon was of course horrible, but you could always say that there were so few Muslims that advocated violence and terrorism. Now there are huge protests all over the world, and Muslim countries' governments are giving, at best, lukewarm support, and presumably so that they can merely keep getting subsidies and economic aid. So few muslim countries have come out full force to support us, except Turkey, which has a strong secular tradition.
I don't dislike Islam because 19 crazies were suicide bombers. But I have real reservations when it appears as if these guys weren't so far out of the mainstream thought of this religion.