More Muslim reaction

There has been more reaction from the Muslim world to the atrocities in Beslan. Daniel Pipes points out the translation from the London Times of Abdel Rahman al-Rashed’s The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!:

It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. …

We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us, whatever the sufferings they claim to justify their criminal deeds. These are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image.

We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women.

And The Mesopotamian, always a moving writer, cries:

This is unbearable. As I am watching the horror pictures from Russia, I watch our little one, for we have a lovely young one in the house too. This is unbearable. Nothing and no cause can justify this, no way. And what is more unbearable is that these zombies carry out all these atrocities in the name of my own religion, in the name of my own God. What can one say?

I strongly recommend you read all of these links in their entirety.

Mr. Pipes concludes his post:

Only when the sentiments of this powerful and moving statement become commonplace will there be real progress in the war against Islamism.

Not quite. Only when the sentiments expressed by good and compassionate Muslims are made real by actions will there be real progress in the war against Islamism.