How "Shocked and Appaled" should Arabs be?

** Update **
If you need a banner or button for your website or blog, I have made different sizes and designs available in a new post.
Also, you can soon download them and print them as posters.
I just designed this little side-bar banner for use in our blogs.(see how it is applied on this website on the right)

If you don't want to commit to the whole statement or if you don't have enough space on your blog/website, you can still use this shorter version:

The comments on this post raise some important issues:
How far do we, Arab and/or Moslem “moderates”, have to go in flaunting our moderation? Would placing such banners as the one in this post be, as one commentator puts it: “apologizing for something we haven’t done”? Is it a double act of “auto-stigmatization and auto-justification” as another suggests?
But on the other hand, what's wrong with wearing your opinion on your sleeve?
People always wear political T-shirts and put on variously colored ribbons.
Besides, we are constantly asked, as Arabs and Moslems to “publicly speak out against” and "denounce" terrorism "In Arabic".
Thomas Friedman points out today – shockingly! - that, until today, not a single Moslem cleric has publicly condemned Bin Laden for his atrocities.
I have personally written two pieces on how best to reform Islam, but what's your take?






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