[Howlin]

So seeing Muslims risk life and limb to vote in Iraq and Afghanistan is not enough to convince you?

What on God's green earth does that have to do with a whole denomination NEVER standing up and saying what the 9-11 hijackers did was wrong?

I'll tell you: not a damn thing.

No they have to hold a prime-time news conference with a microphone and make sure ever citizen hears them say they are not all terrorists?

Yes, they do; they need to speak out PUBLICLY -- and I am talking about INDIVIDUAL Muslims -- to convince the American people that they're entire religion doesn't agree with them.

So far, all we've seen is cheering.

[Ksnavely]

There have been plenty of Muslims who have publicly stated that what happened on 9/11 was wrong. As for me, I would rather see open defiance of the terrorists in the streets of the Muslim words, then polished words spoken by professional diplomats.

[Torie]

How do these individual Muslims get a mircophone, and who provides it? Actually, I did hear some interviews with Muslims on the US street during 9-11 denouncing it. I also heard the Saudi prince in an interview express great personal anguish, and how he feared having to read the Whabbi (sp) texts taught to Saudi pupils to find what they might contain. So it is not entirely seamless, even for what comes before the microphone.