Why should Muslims take responsibility for the extremists?

“In the aftermath of yet another atrocity carried out by vigilante violent fanatics in the name of religion…” In any article beginning with those words one has to be referring, of course, to Islam. Because it couldn’t be the case that one would be talking about the recent mass shooting in Colorado, by a radical fanatic who claimed to be a committed Christian. Indeed, he justified those who attacked abortion clinics, claiming they were doing “God’s work”, and gave the appellation of “heroes” to members of the “Army of God”, a radical group that claimed responsibility for bombings and killings.

The opening of the article. The full text is at Al Arabiya English.