The too silent Muslim majority

Police have arrested the husband of a thirty-seven year old Muslim woman in an affluent Buffalo, New York, suburb on charges of beheading his wife. (Eric Gorski, “ Gruesome killing poses another test for US Muslims,” Washington Post, February 21, 2009.) Will the silent Muslim majority vociferously denounce domestic violence? Or, will the silent Muslim majority once again remain silent? This tragic incident, like the acts Islamicists perpetrate in the name of Islam, affords Muslims another opportunity to enter the public square, constructively engaging their own members and communicating to non-Muslims that Islam is truly and unmistakably a religion of peace and submission to the one God.