World is waiting to hear Islam's explanation

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014
World is waiting to hear Islam's explanation

Re: "Islam has a serious public relations problem", Letters, October 8.

John Arnone’s letter is well expressed and very pertinent to the current global situation. One could say that the letter was written on behalf of the whole non-Muslim world.
We continually hear and read the media referring to those perpetrating violence in the name of Islam as “extremists”. For there to be an extreme, there must be a norm. What is the norm? The world would like to know, and it would be helpful to all were Islam to talk to us. 
JC Wilcox