It became ever clearer to me after our conference on Islam and the Media that journalists do not work hard to seek out alternative Muslim voices to counteract the extremism of radical Islam. Everywhere you look, the debate on Islam is acrimonious, unidimensional, and excessively security-based. Lots of Muslims have been hard at work creating new spaces for a different kind of debate that is constructive and less polarized. We had many of them here in Boulder during our conference and they came from all over the world, from the creator of the first Muslim comic strip, the 99 to the writer of the Canadian hit sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie. Our big disappointment was than nobody from the media (local, regional or national) bothered to stop by even after many interviews I did prior to the conference and the countless emails and press releases I sent to various reporters across the country. Stop asking us where the moderate Muslims are because I brought many of them together for 4 days and they were willing to talk, but you didn't show up. One of them was Mona Eltahawy, an energetic columnist who writes on Muslim issues. You can watch below her latest commentary on the many voices on the Web who deserve to be amplified but are simply foreshadowed by the spectacle of radicals. The media have a big responsibility here because the stakes are simply too high to afford lazy and short-sighted reporting.