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It's not about Islam, it's about extremists, and a tendency for the media to focus on the person currently shouting the loudest.
I personally know lots of very reasonable and rational practicing Muslims, who are as equally shocked, surprised and horrified as anyone else at the current level of fervour and attention that the lunatic fringe are capable of generating. It's politics - not religion. That people in power (i.e. the priests) can take advantage of their people by whipping them up into such incredible acts of demonstration is worrying - almost as worrying as the media's ability to convince many in the west that this is what Muslims do on a regular basis. Please don't allow yourselves to be manipulated by the priests, and please don't let yourselves be manipulated by the media barons - each has their own agenda, and it suits them all for us to close our eyes and start stereotyping.
The buck stops with you.
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