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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
There are many Muslims who do not have this excuse -- in places from the US to Turkey to the Philippines, and even in parts of the Arab Middle East -- and sadly few have stood up to criticize their own.
Even the Sunni authoritarian governments, who should have no love for Shiite extremists, are barely heard to criticize Hezbollah, or Shiite violence against Muslim civilians in Iraq.
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(a) I said I didn't disagree.
(b) This game of "you aren't condemning your bedfellows strongly enough" is so tired. It's tired no matter who's the target. It's about as tired as the "you're being hypocritical" game, a related species.
(c) CAIR -- to take one Muslim group recently attacked on this board for being too close to terrorists, or full of felons, or something -- put out a
press release about the UK bombing plots. It starts with a condemnation of acts of terrorism. I don't recall seeing it reported anywhere. If they say the right things, who cares?
(d) If those British MPs had put out an open letter condemning Islamist terrorism in the strongest possible terms, is there any chance at all that anyone who reads this board would have heard about it? I doubt it. (I'm not blaming any of us. We get our news from media. Controversy sells.)
