Originally Posted by aklim

You can see them get riled up when someone insults or does something they perceive as an insult to the religion. As such you can conclude they don't live in a cave. OTOH, it is much harder to see instances where someone does something in the name of their religion that supposedly goes against the grain AND there are massive protests that the religion is being sullied by those few. Tacit support is also support. Govt statements don't count. Lets just say I'd be a lot more convinced of their not condoning such activity if they had the same level of protests about what Al Qaeda is doing. Yes, I heard all the excuses about what they are afraid of, etc, etc