Shame or No Shame

In a annother follow up piece to the Virginia Tech shooting NPR had on Korean American who wrote about his feelings as shame in a recent oped. There was a feeling of guilt and shame among Korean Americans. On the discussion page for this item many wrote of guilt and shame they sometimes feel for misdeeds of people sharing the same race, religon, philosophy.

The converstaion was all about shame and guilt and responsibilty we all feel for each other. Then a muslim came on talking about 911, starting @ 5'50''. All he was worried was about a backlash.

"...understand that in each culture, each religon, in each tradition there are people who are extremists and they will commit some acts of violence. But the majority of people understand."

There are murdering maniacs "in each culture, each religon, in each tradition". We can feel ashamed and guilty by the actions of related madmen. That the moslem community couldn't be ashamed by by its non-insane murderers, the "extremists", is sign that they can never feel shame. Concern is expressed about a possible blacklash not about the wrongness of the crime.