North American Muslims Trying to Distance Themselves From Their Incendiary Mideast Co-Religionists Said to be "Between a Rock and a Hard Space"

FYI, "the rock" is the SCTV-like Mo skit, which they don't like any better than their frenzied co-religionists in Egypt and other Arab lands do, and "the hard space" is, well, the frenzy:

The rock: An act of Islamophobia, in this instance a YouTube trailer for a US film mocking their religion and its prophet.

The hard space: A violent reaction to the video by extremists in the Muslim World that, like the video itself, perpetuates hatred of Muslims hoping to live and thrive in the West.

“When such things happen, the image of Canadian Muslims, like all Muslims everywhere, can be negatively impacted, especially in the eyes of those who never dealt with Muslims directly at the personal level,” said president of the Saskatoon-based Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), Amin Elshorbagy. 

“Muslim diasporas around the globe ultimately end up being hurt by these things. Diaspora Muslims like us in America are put under extra scrutiny – always on the defensive trying to disassociate ourselves and painstakingly explaining this does not represent us,” Nasser Weddady of the American Islamic Congress (AIC) said. 

Condemnation of extremist attacks
In each of these instances, the response of US and Canadian Muslims has been to disassociate themselves from the extremists.

“There is no doubt in my mind that Muslims carry great love and respect for Prophet Muhammad, but under no circumstances can love be expressed in the form of violence or transgression,” CIC's Elshorbagy said...

Well, it can if it's an act of jihad (from the kafirs' P.O.V., the rock)  being conducted with the the aim of restoring the caliphate (the kafirs', yes, hard space).