Refuting misconceptions:2-jihad not terrorism

[AtheistPhil]

Here's an interesting report on the question of terrorism among muslims in 2009.

Egypt: 8% approval of attacks on civilians in US (and 2% with mixed feelings)
Indonesia: 5% (8%)
Pakistan: 9% (15%)
Morrocco: 7% (8%)
Palestinian territories: 24% (15%)
Jordan: 11% (12%)
Turkey: 8% (10%)
Azerbaidjan: 4% (10%)

(95% confidence intervals of +/- 3 percentage points )

at least speak out against them so you don't feel the need to clear your holy book's name to a bunch of internet atheists.

i will not try to deny that muslims are not doing what they are supposed to do but some of them start doing a little by making programs and campaigns to increase the knowledge about islam but its not organised well so it ends up to be individual efforts(as yusuf estas) but i hope this will increase in the next few years.there is a campaign started from few months and they are willing to reach every country its called the fog is lifting wich aims to tell the people the truth about islam and to clarify what is our position as muslims againest terrorism and a lot of other things

This really amazes me: Those terrorists are trashing Islam on an international level and still no campaign on national levels is made. This show that the rejection of terrorism is not clear, as the statistics above show. My explanation: moderate muslims have a hard time rejecting their extremist fellow brothers, because they are still their brothers, in the same way we are much slower to condemn a friend or family for a bad action than to condemn a stranger for the same action. There is a human double standard: US marines killing muslim civilians in Irak outrages the muslim community, but when some muslim extremists do the same thing on non-muslim civilians the Ummah has mixed feelings about its condemnation.