MUSLIMS worldwide are the main perpetrators of terrorism, a humiliating and painful truth that must be acknowledged, a prominent Arab writer said as Middle East media and officials registered their horror at the bloody rebel siege of a Russian school.

Muslims worldwide are the main perpetrators of terrorism, a humiliating and painful truth that must be acknowledged, a prominent Arab writer said today, as Middle East media and officials registered their horror at the bloody rebel siege of a Russian school.

The first weekly prayers since the start of air strikes on Afghanistan became a call to arms against America at Egypt’s foremost Islamic institute today.