csr ma71 said:
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists tend to be Muslim.
Or are just most terrorist acts in the past 5 years being covered by the media commited by muslims? I think there's a point to the whole biased media thing. You sure get higher audience ratings when covering muslim terrorism than e.g. the massacres committed by the
"Lord's Resistance Army" in the name of the Christian god in Uganda and Congo.
There has always been terrorism in the past decades which had nothing to do with Islam. Be it in Spain, Northern Ireland, Germany, you name it.
And I don't know about the US, but at least over here local muslim leaders do indeed condemn terrorism and extremism. They get very few media coverage though.
As an example, here's what Malaysia's prime minister said in July this year at the International Conference of Islamic Scholars in Jakarta:
http://www.tharwaproject.com/node/10143
It just doesn't seem to interest anyone.