Leading Islamic organizations and civil rights groups marked Bin Laden’s death by announcing that justice finally came to the Al-Qaeda leader who represented the face of global terrorism to Americans and the world.

Muslim American organizations also expressed their gratitude that in announcing the death of Bin Laden; President Barack Obama used the event to reiterate that America was not at war with Islam.

“We are just thrilled, like every American,” said Mohamed-Shukri Hassan of the Al-Farooq Mosque in Tennessee. “As the president pointed out in his address to the nation, the ideology of Osama Bin Laden is incompatible with Islam, and he murdered more Muslims than anyone can think of.”

The Muslim American community’s blogs and social media were filled with reactions on the death of Bin Laden, and their conclusions were all the same: Bin Laden did not – in any manner -- represent Muslims and/or Islam.

The nation's leading Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, issued a statement saying: “We join our fellow citizens in welcoming the announcement that Bin Laden has been eliminated as a threat to our nation and the world through the actions of American military personnel.”

The Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, issued a statement from their Plainfield, Indiana headquarters saying the ideology of Bin Laden is incompatible with Islam, adding that it hoped Osama's death would bring some relief to all the families, of every faith and walk of life, who lost loved ones on 9/11 and in every other terrorist attack orchestrated at the hands of Osama.

The Islamic Circle of North America, ICNA, a New York-based Muslim community organization, called Osama “a serious threat to the security of America and the world” and said his death marked “a significant turning point in the post-9/11 global War on Terror.”  ICNA also expressed its wish that the Obama administration would use “this pivotal moment as an opportunity to rapidly end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and ensure the safe return of our troops.”

The Muslim Public Affairs Council, MPAC, a public service agency based in DC that works for the civil rights of American Muslims and for the integration of Islam into American society, said both Bin Laden’s actions and those of Al-Qaeda had violated the sacred Islamic teachings upholding the sanctity of all human life.

“We hope this is a turning point away from the dark period of the last decade, in which Bin Laden symbolized the evil face of global terrorism,” said MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati. He pointed out that Bin Laden’s senseless terror “had been met with moral outrage by Muslims worldwide at every turn in the past decade.”

But Bin Laden’s death also brought additional feelings of anxiety to some Muslim Americans. 

Federal officials reassured Muslims and Arab Americans during a meeting in Dearborn, Michigan on Wednesday that they would not be profiled in the aftermath of Bin Laden's death.

They said the FBI was looking into potential revenge attacks, but added that it does not have information on specific plans.

The leaders expressed their concern that the death could lead to increased profiling, but Margo Schlanger, national head of the office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Department of Homeland Security, said the government would not employ extra scrutiny of anyone, including Muslims, according to those who attended. She added that the federal terror alert is at the same level now as it was before Bin Laden's death.

Goatmilk, a California-based blog run by Wajahat Ali, was one of several Muslim community blog sites that carried mixed reactions to Osama's killing.

"With the passing of a man who came to represent violence and hate overseas, incite ignorance and misunderstanding within our own nation, and become the face of an agonizing war, I pray that our leaders turn this into a turning point in our history, bring our brave troops back home to safety, and allow for the suffering peoples of Afghanistan and Pakistan to establish the peace and security they have been longing for," wrote Hammad Moses Khan from Sacramento, CA.

Another commentator, Art Balaoro wrote: "Though I am not Muslim, I was happy to hear President Obama reiterate in his global statement that it WAS NOT a war against Islam. Very happy to hear the promotion of racial, religious, and ethnic tolerance in a critical moment."

“Still, the matter of how — or whether — Bin Laden's death might change the perceptions of those who believe a Koran and a shoe-bomb are part of the same spiritual advisory kit will take a long time to solve,” wrote Stephen George in the Muslim Spring.

Katherine Carroll, an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University who spent a year embedded with the US Army in Baghdad as an expert on Middle East politics, says she's skeptical that Bin Laden's death will change some Americans' perception of Muslims. She says at this point, he's more like a bit player in the ongoing drama.

“American anxiety is not just about Bin Laden… It’s about a narrative that comes mostly from conservative media that builds Islam up as an ongoing existential threat to the West. This narrative presents Muslims as the ‘other’ — dangerous, different, not ready for democracy and not appreciative of freedom.”

But Muslim Americans want very much to be included as ‘another’ not as ‘the other.’

“Some Americans categorized us with Bin Laden and associated us with him and his ideology,” said Imam Mohammad Ahmed Al-Sherif of the Islamic Center of Nashville, Tennessee. “But we are not. We are not. We are insisting to be part of this country.”