<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4837b59f-d7aa-4e91-9415-501e4628c669/4B917155-BB4C-438F-95CD-96182107CDA7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/" href="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/" style="font-size: 11px;">coexist101.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/"><P><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/arts/television/24islam.html"></A> “Who Speaks for Islam?,” the title of a two-part series beginning on Sunday on Link TV, is a benign case of bait and switch. The answer to the question, we’re told, is that no one speaks for Islam — it is too vast and diverse, spreading across too many countries and cultures, to have a single, authoritative voice.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/coexist101.wordpress.com/img/728160D1-44E1-4A9E-A704-8F4647379897" alt="WhoSpeaksForIslam" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/"><P>As the Middle East analyst Reza Aslan puts it, Americans are looking for a “united voice of condemnation” of militant violence — a representative of the world’s Muslims who will unequivocally say the things they want to hear — but “there is no such person in Islam.” The voices that fill the void are those of the militants, simply because they’re loudest.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/"><P><A href="http://www.linktv.org/video/4520/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think">http://www.linktv.org/video/4520/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://coexist101.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think/"><P>Related Article: <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/arts/television/24islam.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/arts/television/24islam.html</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B917155-BB4C-438F-95CD-96182107CDA7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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