I must say that it is possible that you misunderstand "repeatedly claimed that the moderate muslims are remaining quiet". You referred to Hitler. Did the Christians that disagreed with keep quite let him go his own way or did they denounce him?
The issue is that the doers of good in the Muslim faith do not make a point of denouncing those that claim to be of the faith are doing wrong. Nor are there any calls for them to cease their "evil" ways.

This is what is missing from the non-fanatical members of the Muslim faith. Here in the US we have a group that is soundly denounced for their misguided faith the; Westboro Baptist Church. Now they have a right to believe as they do but that right does not extend to imposing that belief of those that do not, by force. True they only use intimidation but intimidation is a form of force.

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Getting back to the Islamic centre, I'm disappointed. Equating all Muslims to the ones that killed people is like equating Hitler to Catholics or KKK to all the whites of America. For the last 9 years, a lot of right wing commentators and politicians have repeatedly claimed that the moderate muslims are remaining quiet while the fanatical ones are doing all the talking. Fact is that barely anyone reports what moderate muslims do, it just doesn't make good news. No one is going to report the fact that the group that a few of my friends were in raised enough money to give away free food to poorer neighbourhoods, or that there have been community outreach programs or that there are muslim vets out there that served their country with distinction. One muslim goes on a rampage, and it's terrorism. One decides to act like a fucking douchewad and everyone in the entire religion is now a suspect.

It is highly offensive to me, as a Muslim to hear how people say the Islamic community centre is a slap in the face to those who died. To those who claim that, they either have never bothered finding out if there is a distinction between murderers and the rest of us, and brand us all under one assumption. If it was a YMCA, would there be an uproar? And what truely disgusts me is that people with the resources to find out more fail to do so, or out of sheer and willing ignorance spew out false hatred and accusations. Newt Gringrich comes to mind. How he is respected is beyond me.