I have seen moderate Muslims discredit and condemn the radicals both locally and nationally. The problem is, the media doesn't cover it because it would mean once again, President Bush would be right. Honestly, why would they cover it? I suspect that even if every moderate Muslims condemned the radicals, it wouldn't be enough.
BTW, the only network I've seen cover the moderate Muslim view is FOX- and they don't do it enough.
Sure here is one of 100's of stories!
Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, condemned America's Christian right yesterday for propagating hatred against Muslims, in what appeared to be a coordinated White House campaign to confront anti-Islamic rhetoric from a constituency that includes some of the Bush administration's staunchest supporters.
Days after the televangelist Pat Robertson said on his Christian Broadcasting Network that "what the Muslims want to do to the Jews is worse" than the Holocaust, Mr Powell told a gathering in Washington: "This kind of hatred must be rejected."
The escalation in anti-Muslim comments from conservative Christians includes a recent claim by Jerry Falwell, the country's leading rightwing Baptist, that the prophet Mohammed was "a terrorist".
Veteran evangelist Jimmy Swaggart followed that this week by calling Mohammed a "sex deviant" and a pervert and demanding that Muslim students in the US be expelled. "We ought to tell every other Muslim living in this nation that if you say one word, you're gone," he said.
As the likelihood grows of a war in Iraq there are strategic benefits for the White House in convincing Muslims that it would not be a war against their religion.
The administration's increased willingness to confront the Christian right reflects the Republicans' sweeping victories in last week's mid-term elections, reducing Mr Bush's reliance on the extreme fringes of his supporter base.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,840568,00.html
I suspect that even if every moderate Muslims condemned the radicals, it wouldn't be enough. You seem to be indicating that Muslim radicals are the majority.
How then can you justify your support of the Bush kid's political maneuver in defining that group as peaceful?