Although in the West we have not been reading about the voice of moderate intellectuals arguing for the power and integrity of Islam as a religion that does not accept terrorism, here is documentation of some of those efforts.

Report from Arab News documenting Muslim intellectuals organizing public theologically-based opposition against those who justify terror

Newspaper columnists contribute to the effort of exposing and confronting the methods of those who recruit subjects for suicide bombing attacks on innocent people.

A moderate Italian Muslim sheikh blames the House of Saud as the main supporter of extremism and international terrorism. He advocates creating a moderate Muslim education network to counteract the extremists and reveal the internal split in Islam

We should not presume that all of the people in Islamic societies ruled by strict dictatorial regimes are necessarily anti-liberal in their attitudes. This survey shows some surprising results, even in Saudi Arabia.

One page interview with Karim Aga Khan IV in which he asserts the compatibility between Islam and democracy, and attributes terrorism to political conditions such as Kashmir and Afghanistan rather than to Islam.

All voices for moderation face the threat of assassination or other forms of persecution. Challenging the Islamist perspective entails significant danger. This factor plays an important role in preventing reform, renewal or innovation and has led to the ideological, economic and political stagnation.

Iranian Muslim Amir Taheri argues that because Muslims believe that government from God is superior to democracy and that equality is antithetical to a divinely inspired religious state, therefore Islam and Democracy are not compatible.

The father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl offers an honest and surprisingly optimistic "framing model" assessment of means to reduce the threat of terrorism.

[Caution: This article comes from a conservative website. It is included only to provide a divesity of viewpoints. It expresses the argument that present difficulties with terrorism must be confronted by subsidizing "moderate" Islam. This is a radical view by conservative American standards.]