Muslims Finally Waking Up to the Threat of Extremism

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WASHINGTON -- It was all too familiar. Part of me felt a tinge of desperation, a feeling of inevitability. But this time, there was something else -- a feeling that we, the American Muslim community, were now ready to take the steps we should have taken long ago.

Where we had slowly become desensitized by the endless reports of slaughter in Iraq, 7/7 came unexpectedly, forcing our community to finally confront an uneasy reality. On that day, something clicked inside me and so many other Muslims who, in focusing primarily on the threat to Muslim civil liberties, had not paid enough attention to the threat of religious extremism in our own communities.

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Muslims Finally Waking Up to the Threat of Extremism

July 7 will haunt us for the foreseeable future -- as it should. As American Muslims, we had seen terrorism as something uniquely foreign -- relevant but remote. But the London attacks were a frightening reminder that if anti...

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