"What's your theory on why this criticism is so rare?"
It's not rare, the western media just doesn't publicize it and you don't bother to look for it. Perfect example: In 2005, 170 Muslim clerics and scholars from all over the globe representing almost every single sect and school of thought in Islam banded together and issued a joint fatwa condemning ALL acts of terrorism in the name of Islam (for more, read Link. This type of intersectarian cooperation was hitherto unprecedented in the Muslim world but came about in order to defend the true meaning of Islam from those who seek to manipulate it for their own purposes.
Do some more homework before you criticize the Muslim community. In fact, cruise this website put together by students from Colgate University with the help of the American Academy of Religion: Link. I'd especially like to point out the numerous denunciations of acts of terror from Muslim leader worldwide and the vigils held by Muslims everywhere in memory of those killed in 9/11 and other attacks.
Since the Know Your Right Wing Speakers bio on Michael Medved just went up, I thought I’d hop over to Medved’s site to see what the latest from the Mustachioed Madman was. A fresh blog post from Medved was there to greet me and it did not disappoint. He begins:
The latest example of political correctness run amok involves the BBC describing the Islamists who planned bombings in London and Glasgow as arising from “the disfranchised South Asian community.”
Medved goes on to claim the terms “South Asian” and “Indian” are “misleading.” He denounces “[t]he refusal to use the words “Muslim” or “Islamist” to identify these terrorists,” and continues: “But of course, they’re all Muslim.”
This isn’t all that shocking coming from Medved, who calls Islam “a primitive religion” and insists there is “a violence problem in the Muslim world because that is an inherent problem in Islam.” What is shocking is that President Bush invited this guy to the White House talk to him about Middle East affairs. Glad the president’s talking to the experts.
The latest from Medved is by no means as ridiculous as Michael Savage’s comments which Cara dutifully reported yesterday, but it just reinforces the need for progressives to reclaim the airwaves from rabid right-wingers.
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It's not rare, the western media just doesn't publicize it and you don't bother to look for it. Perfect example: In 2005, 170 Muslim clerics and scholars from all over the globe representing almost every single sect and school of thought in Islam banded together and issued a joint fatwa condemning ALL acts of terrorism in the name of Islam (for more, read Link. This type of intersectarian cooperation was hitherto unprecedented in the Muslim world but came about in order to defend the true meaning of Islam from those who seek to manipulate it for their own purposes.
Do some more homework before you criticize the Muslim community. In fact, cruise this website put together by students from Colgate University with the help of the American Academy of Religion: Link. I'd especially like to point out the numerous denunciations of acts of terror from Muslim leader worldwide and the vigils held by Muslims everywhere in memory of those killed in 9/11 and other attacks.