I have lived and worked in the Middle East for several years. The vast majority of Muslims are not our enemies and just want to live and work and provide for their families as we do. My best man at my wedding was a Palestinian Muslim who is like my brother. He is not a radical.
The real problem is that about 10 to 15 percent are radical and want to apply strict Koranic teachings to all of us. That means around 160 million Muslims believe in and are willing to perform holy Jihad against us.
There is a war against the West. If we do not realize there is a war we will lose. I have great compassion for the non radical Muslims as they will also lose in this war.
If you walk down the streets of Cairo every third female has been brutalized by clitorectomy. Egypt as a whole the percentage is 50%. This is the face of radical Islam. It fears the sensuality of a female and relegates her to the status of chattel.
Other sources, see link below, say the percentage in Egypt is 90% of females endure this mutilation. I suspect the real number is somewhat in between, perhaps75%
This is the face of radical Islam. It is not pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation
I also have Muslim friends here in Los Angeles. Normal, everyday people.
They are in fear of the types you talk of. I get that. The problem is that one does not know who to think of as “normal” and who is not.
i spent a little over a year total in egypt 30 years ago when i was in my formative twenties with no preconception of islam but predicated in my Christianity and what i saw made me realize that it is islam that is the problem not the people so islam should die but there is only one way for that to happen only one way so if the meek shall inherit the earth by all that is Holy let me be the one to destroy all trace of islam from here all 1.+ billion and yeah I WILL TAKE THE BLAME enjoy