Powerline notes, “Muslims ‘Worry About Image'” and conclude:
So far, most of the world’s Muslims haven’t been embarrassed enough to take any significant action to reform their religion. They have, I think, a remarkably high threshold of embarrassment.
(via Instapundit)
As I noted before, CAIR has yet to issue any statement on the Mumbai terror, in stark contrast to its quick condemnation of the Holy Land Foundation verdict – “fear mongering.”
Reactions, like this one to the Beslan atrocity four years ago,
Obviously not all Muslims are terrorists but, regrettably, the majority of the terrorists in the world are Muslims. The kidnappers of the students in Ossetia are Muslims. The kidnappers and killers of the Nepalese workers and cooks are also Muslims. Those who rape and murder in Darfour are Muslims, and their victims are Muslims as well. Those who blew up the residential complexes in Riyadh and Al-Khobar are Muslims. Those who kidnapped the two French journalists are Muslims. The two [women] who blew up the two planes [over Russia] a week ago are Muslims. Bin Laden is a Muslim and Al-Houthi [the head of a terrorist group in Yemen] is a Muslim. The majority of those who carried out suicide operations against buses, schools, houses, and buildings around the world in the last ten years are also Muslims.
are all too rare.
UPDATE: A commenter notes:
I googled CAIR, statement, mumbai and found that they have issued condemnatory statements.
That’s correct. But they still haven’t posted these statements to their website. At the very least CAIR’s behavior is cynical.
UPDATE II: CAIR has finally posted a statement. Tell me what’s missing.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages taken during the attacks. Witnesses say the attackers sought out American and British citizens.
Given the lack of specificity (no mention of seeking out Jews and Israelis) and the later equivocation:
The Washington-based group also asked the Indian government to protect all its citizens from the type of retaliatory attacks that have taken place following similar incidents in the recent past.
this statement is a lot less emphatic than CAIR’s condemnation of a verdict it didn’t much like. I question CAIR’s sincerity.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
I googled CAIR, statement, mumbai and found that they have issued condemnatory statements.
You’re correct. I figured that they would take care to post those on their own website. Something they haven’t done yet. Given how quickly CAIR was able to get a statement up condemning the Holy Land Foundation verdict, its failure to do the same in the wake of the Mumbai terror calls the sincerity of their outrage into question.
Actually, the fact that they condemned the Holy Land Foundation verdict so quickly and completely, implies that the only reason they condemn any Muslim massacre is because “it makes them look bad”. If they were honest, they would be coming out with those statements in Arabic and not just English (for our “benefit”).
“Muslims ‘Worry About Image’”
That sums up the problem right there. They’re more worried about their “image” than about innocent people being murdered.