No Muslim cleric will speak up and condemn this action. No, none of that. "Allah is great" - no thank you, if Allah condones brutally cutting off the heads of civilians hired to restore power to Iraq then I allah is an evil bastard indeed.
I did a search for the Muslim organisations here in the United States and around the world to see what their reactions would be to the Nick Berg killing.
The Nick Berg murder was condemned by the Islamic Society of North America
http://www.isna.net/news/miniheadlin...le&artid=322th America
So did The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article....=33237&page=NB
The American Muslim Voice (AMV) condemned it
http://www.amuslimvoice.org/html/sta...s_on_iraq.html
Muslim Public Affairs Council condemned it
http://www.mpac.org/
Three Arab states -- Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates --- have condemned Berg's murder.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/me...erg/index.html
Beheading condemned by Hamas and Hizbollah
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=521094
I could, I think have found more. But, I think the Nick Berg's killers have little support in the Islamic World for what they did.
When I worked in Radio, back in 1991, I received the press releases from Muslim organisations condemning the 9-11 attacks. Despite this, I often heard people in the mainstream media say that there was "a deafening silence" from the world's Muslims about the attacks and that "not a single Muslim organisation or government condemned the 9-11 terrorist attacks". The truth is, that most Muslims are against terrorism and murder. It's only the ones who are in favor of it that get any coverage in the Press.
Let's not repeat the same mistake that was made by the Press after 9-11.
