Salon.com > Paul M. Barrett http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The reason we haven’t noticed American Muslims condemning terrorism http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/barrett_3/ http://www.salon.com/2007/03/01/barrett_3/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:52:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion//feature/2007/03/01/barrett "What I want to know is: Why haven't these American Muslims you write about denounced terrorism?" The speaker, wearing an expression of earnest frustration, stood first in line to get a signed copy of my new book after a reading I did last week at the Los Angeles Public Library. "You say there are these moderate Muslims," he continued. "Why don't we hear from them about terrorism?"

It's a question I've heard at every bookstore, library, radio station and television studio where I've appeared around the country in the past month as I promoted my book "American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion." More than five years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans still want to know why they haven't heard Muslims in the U.S. issue louder, clearer condemnations of terrorism. Muslim Americans who attend my readings often counter, sometimes with great emotion, that they have repeatedly denounced terrorism but that non-Muslims don't listen.

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