There's a huge media bias in the west to focus on the most extreme Muslims they can find.
There have been demonstrations, marches, speeches, declarations by high religious leaders etc. denouncing violence and extremism and calling for peace and religious tolerance in different forms all over the Islamic world, from small gatherings to hundreds of thousands at a time.
However, there is almost no tradition of reporting on those positive demonstrations. We don't do it, and from what I've heard they kind of go unnoticed even there. East or West, fear sells, hope does not.
And of course, just like the moderate Christian voices has almost zero effect on the Christian nutcases here, it doesn't seem to do much to stop the Muslim nutcases there.
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