I applaud Mohammed

Submitted by pigfoot (United States), Jan 6, 2006 at 19:05

Sir, I applaud you for speaking up for the moderate "real" Islam. You and others should continue this effort, especially in the US. You have it exactly correct when you say" People go straight to the idea of terrorists when the hear the word Muslim". This is a terrible shame, but that is the way people are, especilly the ill-informed. For example, some hear "baseball" and nowdays all they think about is steroid drugs and the few that have used them.

However, there are more than a few Muslims that are now militants and/or terrorists. Actually quite a few more than you suggest in your comment. Daniel Pipes has a listing of all of the organizations that use the word "jihad" in their organization name. If we could get us a tally of those within these organizations then we could get an partial count anyway.

Good luck to you and the other American Muslims like yourself who speak out. We who are somewhat informed on this subject are not your enemy.

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