Ethics

The Ignoring of Muslim Leaders

By Ed Brayton

No, not the ignorance of Muslim leaders but the ignoring of them. Just recently I had a conversation with someone who is generally pretty aware of the world, certainly far more than the average American. He's not some gung ho war supporter or a xenophobe at all. But he did say, at one point while discussing radical Islam, that he doesn't understand why more Muslim leaders had not spoken out against Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and other radical Muslims who commit violence in the name of their religion. His mundane ignorance of the many statements made by major Islamic leaders on such matters is echoed by what can only be the virulent ignorance of Thomas Friedman, who really must know better. But in the New York Times recently, Friedman says:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).