Surely if you payed any sort of attention to them, you would know that they do. For example, the Islamic Supreme Council of America and the American Islamic Conference, Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Muslim Women's League, as well as numerous Arab American organizations have explicitly condemned terrorism and Wuhabbis. Furthermore, if you look at the demographics, most American Muslims are well spread out, not centered anywhere except for a few major areas (LA, New York and michigan) and well dispersed and not well organized like the Christians or Jews.
Did you watch how the Iraqi terrorists took hold of the Lebanese American MUSLIM from Utah this past summer? He was a Marine. I don't think that most American Muslims would agree with you about "fighting for freedom" which I am assuming you are referencing Iraq.
On the other hand, the AAI's founder is not John Zogby. It's founer is Dr. James Zogby.
http://www.aaiusa.org/zogby/zogby_home.htm This is his bio from the AAI website. The "anti Bush bias" coming from AAI polls is only because if you've been to an Arab country, that's the sentiment there. Very few people there like him. Sorry. That's life. I can tell you as an Arab, George W Bush is seen as one of the worst leaders in recent history because of his foolish policies and foreign policy naivite.
That is not the purpsoe of the AAI. It's not a sectarian organization. In their own words:
On the accurate portrail of our community, that means just that; Arab Americans are overwhelimingly Christian, there is a Muslim minority among us and Arabs in america among the minority in the Muslim community. It is not our duty to "reclaim Islam", that is the duty of Muslims. It is our duty to reclaim our identiy from a society that continually equates Arab with Muslim. The "reclaiming of Islam" is the duty of the Muslims. Not the Arabs. And the Institute has done a fine job of denouncing terrorism and the like. It isn't a paramilitary organization and isn't going to storm the office of suspected radical immams. It doesn't have a militia at it's command (many Arab Americans are immigrants and quite weary of such militancy I know my parent are and just about every Lebanese person I know from Lebanon is sick of fighting for "freedom" and such). And it isn't going to go about trying to recruit Arab American youth to join the military. They have a very nice, easy to use website, I suggest that you check it out because it sounds like you have not. You sound like you have gotten a lot of "he said this or that" and nothing direct. The AAI opposed the Iraqi war, just like many other Arab American organizations, for the reason that most Arab American opposed it as well. At the same time, the AAI takes a proLebanon stance on Syrian interfearance there. This reflects the make of the institute, mostly Levantine Arabs. Especially Lebanese Maronites. Ask a Megrhibi Arab like my father what he thinks of that situation and he thinks it is just and good because the Syrians are protecting the Christians and Arabs from Israel. W/e. The "peaceniks" you mentioned include people who are not warhawks I would assume. They would also include people who have no interest in fighting such wars for glory. Invading Iraq brought noone any closer to freedom. This is a fact. Alawi is not any better than the old Ba'athists. He and those who gave the US the fake intellegence are only 'democrats" because they want power. They have been out of Iraq so long they are no longer even Arab. At least some in the diaspora have been back to their countries. These are ivory tower elites who have been appointed by
foreigners to run Iraq. It is no wonder they cannot controll Iraq. I would expect the same from an Algerian who lived in France from the past several decades. They took out one despot and have relpaced him with another. It is amazing that once the
secular dictator has been tossed from power (after being a tool of those who tossed him) the chaos resulting is not blamed on the ones who opened the Pandora's box. I chanllege you to find one nonBa'athist Arab state in that region who fought Islamists as effectively. You cannot. Because he killed them. He'd have killed al-Sadr if al-Sadr had begun to behave as he is now. That was the realpolik that was destroyed and our freedom endangered by people who did not pay attention to reality as much as they did ideological banter.
Please, sir, do not write "moslems" that is outdated it's like write "negroes".
