This is really the point those outside the community are trying to make. Decrying the bad acts of a few among themselves does little for the community at large. Such denunciations need to be outside of partisan services to be of real value to Muslim neighbors.

As can be seen by some of the shenanigans around the nation secrecy is not an ally in this matter.

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Thing is they/we are! Every time something like this happens, from the mosques to different Islamic organizations, the moderates are angry and increadibly vocal about all of this. The woman in Iran who has been sentenced to death for supposed adultry, people here are petitioning the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, the asshole Manhattan bomber who didn't detonate (thankfully) has been lambasted by everyone I know to be muslim. I can't speak for muslims in the east, but here, we're sick of bad news. Every imam has denounced all these idiotic actions in many sermons. As for the enslavement of women, you should see the activism that muslims are trying to do to rectify that. From fundraising for awareness and education for girls, there has been a push to address that as well.

Like I said, there is no coverage of all the steps muslims have taken to fighting all of this stuff. If there is no media outlet willing to do a segment (because the Clinton wedding and Lohan's incarceration was prime news) no one is going to find out.