"The Problem of Muslim Leadership," Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wall Street Journal.

The entire article by Ms. Ali can be found here: http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-240773/

"Another Islamist terror attack, another round of assurances that it had nothing to do with the religion of peace. I’ve seen this before. A Muslim terrorist slays a non-Muslim citizen in the West, and representatives of the Muslim community rush to dissociate themselves and their faith from the horror. This happens every time. Muslim men wearing suits and ties, or women wearing stylish headscarves, are sent out to reassure the world that these attacks have no place in real Islam, that they are aberrations and corruptions of the true faith.

But then what to make of Omar Bakri? He too claims to speak for the true faith, though he was unavailable for cameras in England last week because the Islamist group he founded, Al-Muhajiroun, was banned in Britain in 2010...Michael Adebolajo—the accused Woolwich killer who was seen on a video at the scene of the murder, talking to the camera while displaying his bloody hands and a meat cleaver—was Bakri’s student a decade ago, before his group was banned. “A quiet man, very shy, asking lots of questions about Islam,” Bakri recalled last week. The teacher was impressed to see in the grisly video how far his shy disciple had come, “standing firm, courageous, brave. Not running away.”

Bakri also told the press: “The Prophet said an infidel and his killer will not meet in Hell. That’s a beautiful saying. May God reward [Adebolajo] for his actions . . . I don’t see it as a crime as far as Islam is concerned.”

The question requiring an answer at this moment in history is clear: Which group of leaders really speaks for Islam?

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Some refuse even to admit that this is the question on everyone’s mind. Amazingly,...some continue to deny any link between Islam and terrorism.

[Ah, ah, ah. Excuse me, I just had an orgasm.]

One can only wonder at people who can be so exquisitely sensitive in protecting Islam’s reputation yet so utterly desensitized to a hideous murder explicitly committed in the name of Islam.

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...[S]omething more is desperately required: genuine recognition of the problem with Islam.

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...[L]ast week the Guardian newspaper could still run a headline quoting a Muslim Londoner: “These poor idiots have nothing to do with Islam.” Really? Nothing?

[That is also what Prime Minister Cameron said:  "There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act."]

I don’t blame Western leaders. They are doing their best to keep the lid on what could become a meltdown of trust between majority populations and Muslim minority communities. 

[I do blame and I have blamed Western leaders like Cameron and Obama. They are lying to their people.]

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

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I wonder what would happen if Muslim leaders like Julie Siddiqi started a public and persistent campaign to discredit these Islamist advocates of mayhem and murder."

I'm overwhelmed. Speechless...well, not quite speechless (I'm a lawyer)....Yeah, speechless, I have nothing additional to say.