Quote Originally Posted by pparrott View Post
Spiderman - In attempting to understand this issue, I assume that fear must captivate the millions of peace loving Muslims so that there is no majority voice of peace heard in these Muslim nations. It stands to reason that the peace loving folk have relatives that actively participate in sectarian violence. Do the peace lovers have no influence? The peaceful seem weak and helpless. Why?

pp
From what I understand, the "Muslim nation" has no real leader or head, just a bunch of imam sorts who probably range from truly good and spiritual to the vicious hatemongers that we hear about in the news. Whatever one might think about the Catholic church, they do have one main guy who sets the tone and tells them what to do. That leaves them in a state of self determination, which as we know as humans, can be a very good thing if you're strong and decent, or bad if one allows oneself to be led by fanatics.
As reported in a very good hour report on NPR.