“Why don’t they say anything?”

Whenever I speak to general audiences about Islam, which I do fairly frequently, I’m inevitably asked why Muslims haven’t spoken out against extremist violence committed in the name of their faith.

It’s a genuine concern, and I understand it.

But there have, in fact, been quite a few statements against Islamist terror.  They simply don’t get much attention, and most non-Muslims in the West don’t know about them.

Here, for example, is a statement that was issued by the Islamic Council of Greater Salt Lake, right in my own backyard, in response to the recent massacres in Paris:

http://www.utahmuslims.com/?p=22887

To my embarrassment, I myself was unaware of it until last night.