(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Three or 4 anyway...
""non-violent muslims"??? Is that like a pro-abortion Catholic? How many of these could there be?"
Probably most of them, but the violent element is SO violent that they are pretty much lost in all calculations. If they stand up to the enemy within, they and worse yet, their families, may suffer horrible retribution.
In a situation like this, the only way I see to fix a broken society is militarization and BRUTAL suppression of all fanatic elements, sort of like what saddam did. The problem, of course, is when you have a saddam-strength government, you have a saddam-style brutal regime.
I often think the US is just biding its time until something really bad gets through the net and happens here and they use that as public justification for a far more pervasive campaign against muslim fanatics everywhere they matter to us.