It is also incorrect to think that what Imams in one part of the world say or do can possibly have an effect on what Imams in another part of the world say or do. It is no more appropriate to suggest that Imams in California, for instance, can change how Islam is practiced in Somalia than it is to say that the pastor of the Episcopal church down the road from me can make that branch of Mormons who marry children stop doing what they're doing.   The pastor of the Episcopal church down the road from me cannot possibly make those people stop what they're doing, no matter what that he or she says or does, nor could the entire Episcopal Church in the US do so, and to hold the Imams to a different standard than we hold the clergy of other religions is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I talk about the anti-Muslim prejudice in the West.