If only Muslim leaders would speak as clearly and forcefully as these gentlemen:

We are Muslim professionals who live and work in the UK, and write on behalf of more than 20 other professional colleagues.

We feel deeply ashamed of the international campaign of wanton violence and terrorism carried out in the name of Islam. We express our utter abhorrence at the murder of thousands of innocent civilians in New York, Madrid, Istanbul, Riyadh and other places around the world. We also utterly condemn the barbaric acts of the so-called Iraqi resistance that is targeting Iraqi and foreign civilians who are trying to rebuild the infrastructure of that shattered country.

We specifically call upon Muslim imams and Muslim ulama (senior figures), both Sunnis and Shia, in the UK to issue a joint and unequivocal condemnation of all acts of violence against civilians in any country that are carried out in the name of Islam. Muslims all over the world must dissociate themselves from these criminals whose aim is to destroy freedom and civilisation. The proper place for these terrorists is behind bars.

From the U.K. Times via Normblog.