of miles from the site, spoke about “middle-eastern features,” and an Islamic connection without any official or unofficial source. Even the Pentagon announced the need for Arabic translators to work in interrogation. Finally when Clinton spoke of the total innocence of Arabs and Muslims in the matter, most of them ceased their disparagement of Islam, and harassment of Muslims. But, when Goldstein massacred people at prayer in the Mosque of Abraham [in Hebron], did they Americans speak about “Zionist terrorism”? Or did they simply talk of a crime committed by a Jewish individual? And that is only one of many examples.

On the other hand, if we supposed that all terrorist incidents in America for a century had been the work of an extremist Islamic organization, would that excuse accusing all Muslims in general or Islam itself?

America has more organizations than any other country espousing racism, extremist religions, and terrorism. What it then be correct to attribute whatever actions any one of them commits to the American people, or to the religion of America itself?

Or for example, why did the Japanese media not accuse the Chinese or the Communists of carrying out the terrorist incident in the Tokyo Metro? And that they did that because Japan is free and advanced? Was it stupidity on their part, or was it because of God bestowed a different level of justice on all them? Or is it that the American media, along with the American administration, has its own definition of justice?

Why is it that the British media do not attack Catholicism every time there is an incident in Northern Ireland? Aren’t the Catholics the traditional enemies of the Protestants? Isn’t the war there clearly a religious war? Hasn’t the competition between them for converts in Africa led sometimes to burning missionary centers and even bloodshed?

The “Al-Qaeda” organization –if there actually is an organization- never claimed to be a part of the Islamic movement. Nor has anyone of the Islamic movement said, before or after September 11th, that that organization was part of them. In fact, some of them have gone to excess in condemning them, especially in America and its allies. They have even denied that it has any connection to Islam at all!

Yet, the signatories state that this organization is but one arm of the Islamic movement! Exactly as if a Muslim writer claimed that a group such as the skinheads or the Irish Republican Army were only one arm of the International Christian movement which includes the Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Quakers, Mormons, Baptists, etc.

This exposes their real problem, which is in reality their problem with Islam, not with the Islamic movement. Even if we supposed that all Muslims in the world became Americans in every aspect, every incident will still be attributed to them from the first moment! What do you suppose is the cause of this? Is it reason and academic research? Or is it the residue within the unconscious that rushes out, completely bypassing the conduits of reason, which some scholars believe to be deeply rooted violence and made-up enemies within the European psyche mentioning this unforgettable advice:

In order to make the problem clearer let us take the example of the devil. People, without excusing criminals or relieving them of any of their responsibility for their actions, attribute such actions to the devil since the origin of all sin is his temptation and enticement. Thus, he has come to be the incarnation of absolute evil. As you see, the great amount of misinformation and misconceptions about Islam has caused the people of the West (with a few exceptions) to see Islam as the incarnation of evil in their deepest feelings, even if they know intellectually that there are good and evil in every religion. Because of this the Western mind has no problem in attributing any evil deed to Islam, despite the knowledge of its actual innocence. For example, the Jim Jones