Islamic Introspection

An article in the New York Times today reports that journalists in the Islamic world have been candidly introspective about the massacre by Muslims of so many children in Beslan, Russia. For example: "They turned today's Islam into something having to do with decapitations, the slashing of throats, abducting innocent civilians and exploding people... They have fixed the image of Muslims in the eyes of the world as barbarians and savages who are not good for anything except slaughtering people." This is a good start, but expelling bigotry and intolerance will not be accomplished until the same measure of introspection and criticism arise from the slaughter by Islamists of civilians in Israel.