While many respectable Muslim organizations around the world have condemned the despicable carnage that occurred at the World Trade Center on September 11, there is a growing number of groups and individuals who are equivocal in their condemnation of violence. In doing so, they become apologists for violence and terror. There is something deeply disturbing about using explanation and understanding as a fig leaf for justification and as an excuse to spread feeble diatribes about desserts alone. Even more disturbing is the fact that intelligent, right-thinking people attend sermons and speeches in which such dehumanizing pseudo-religious nonsense is preached without objection or protest. Walter Benjamin's famous statement has never rung truer when he stated that every document of civilization is also a document of barbarism. The most absurd aspect of the rhetoric of terror apologists, especially Muslims, is that they advance their demands in the name of justice. Allowing them to become the guardians of justice means discrediting it. These pulpit impostors and armchair generals know little about humanity, lack compassion, and have perverted justice to their own ends. No human being deserves to die. Our moral sensibilities are tested even in the most final convictions that lead to the death penalty, not to mention when acts of determined destruction and terror are unleashed against innocents at the World Trade Center in New York. No Iraqi child deserves to die under unyielding sanctions meant to punish a draconian political authority. Nor do Palestinians and Israelis deserve to die in a gruesome massacre if their respective leaders fail to make peace. It might be better for Muslims to unequivocally condemn acts of terrorism without launching into explanations of the algebra of grievances. To venture into such complex levels of sociological commentary without the necessary skill and empathy is to regard human life as superfluous. For Muslims to make such claims is to discredit the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad, whose person is fondly remembered in Islamic teachings as a "mercy to humanity." And surely every Muslim has the right to recover the reputation and integrity of their faith from such misrepresentation. The truth is that such a large number of Muslims have become so dehumanized that they flaunt indecency as a grandiloquent virtue. It is difficult to imagine who lacks more compassion: the terrorists who died with their victims or their numerous apologists who connect the tragedy with the sweet, sometimes without even dissimulating their joy at the misery of others..