The reason that Muslims in America have not responded the way they have in Europe is that we have come to know that so many people here speak out against such bigotries , and so many newspapers have not published the cartoons , '' said Mohamed Magid , the imam and executive director of a large mosque in Virginia , the All Dulles Area Muslim Society , who was among a group of Muslim leaders who met with the ambassador of Denmark , Friis Arne Petersen , last week in Washington .