[churchillbuff]

the sometimes unclear lines between peace-loving Muslim Americans and those who pose a threat is a dilemma ---

That's for sure. Bush would be stupid to act in a way so as to alienate all or most American Muslims, because Arab Americans gave him a majority of their votes, if I've heard correctly. Very possibly, without Arab votes for Bush, Gore would be president today. If Bush doesn't want to spit at this community the way some firebrands are urging him to do, it's hard to blame him.

[TLBSHOW]

I'm siding with Frank! Get the radicals out of the white house.........

[Sabertooth]

If Bush doesn't want to spit at this community the way some firebrands are urging him to do, it's hard to blame him.

I respectfully suggest that if we're going to cultivate the votes of the peace-loving Moslems, then perhaps President Bush should get his picture taken with them, and not the creeps whith whom Grover Norquist is fond of hobnobbing.

[Jael]

Here's the deal. He had nothing to gain by joining forces with the people described in the articles above. Any action he took to defend this country and avenge 9/11 would preclude most if not all Muslims from ever voting for Bush.

There was nothing to gain, and everything to lose.

[Jorge]

Bush would be stupid to act in a way so as to alienate all or most American Muslims, because Arab Americans gave him a majority of their votes, if I've heard correctly. Very possibly, without Arab votes for Bush, Gore would be president today. If Bush doesn't want to spit at this community the way some firebrands are urging him to do, it's hard to blame him.

Good point.

And it would be completely stupid to turn the war against terrorism into a war against Islam.

Bush has very wisely exploited divisions in the Muslim community to isolate the radicals and terrorists.
IMHO he's been brilliant, politically, in the way he's handled this very volatile situation.