"I know after 9//11 Muslims were dancing in the streets in the Middle East and the silence out of the American Muslim community was practically deafening."
This is complete BS. In the streets of TEHRAN there was a gigantic candlelight vigil for the victims of 9/11. 60,000 Iranians had a moment of silence for the victims during a soccer match. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5377914.stm). There were some disgusting reactions which you can see on youtube, but honestly, how do you expect Palestineans to react to an attack on American soil when they are being shelled everyday and having their homes bulldozed with full American backing?

Just because the American Muslim community wasn't out calling for the blood of Saddam Hussein doesn't mean their "silence was deafening".

" When one looks objectively (if this is possible) at the Muslim world where do you see leaders who are moderate?"
Perhaps in the three largest Muslim countries in the world of Turkey, Egypt, and Indonesia and their combined population of almost 400million people?

Note: Islamists only entered the Egyptian government after the Bush administration forced Mubarak to unban the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist political parties.

Also, India is a moderate democracy which has population of over 100million Muslims, more than live in Pakistan.

"How does one explain the Arab League's warm embrace of the genocidal leader of Sudan?"
It's not easy but it isn't like the US has ever had any problem with genocidal leaders when they're in line with our geopolitical goals (see Pakistan in East Bangledesh, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, every country in Latin America during the 1980s). I guess Western Democracy is evil then?