[NutCrackerBoy]

Well then, most Muslims are carrying water for bin Laden. But we knew that. That's the problem.

I find some anti-Islam sentiment here on FR over-the-top. But it would be nuts to pretend there is no support in American mosques for the militants.

[risk]

I find some anti-Islam sentiment here on FR over-the-top.

There's a time-honored tendency for human beings to want to identify their enemies and dispatch them. The association of anti-Americanism with Islam goes way back for anyone who remembers the 444 days of the Iranian hostage crisis, the fatwa against the West that came out of Rushdie's Satanic Verses book, and the 243 Marines who were killed in Lebannon.

We will always remember that the people who did these things to us did them in the name of their religion. That's supports Bush's argument that we should not fight wars in the name of Christianity.

[wizardoz]

I find some anti-Islam sentiment here on FR over-the-top. But it would be nuts to pretend there is no support in American mosques for the militants.

Yes. A lot of the remarks I see here (and some of the ones I make) are just expressions of extreme frustration and outrage. I'd wager that only 1 in 100 of us really would nuke Mecca if we could. Or at least, many of us would evacuate the area first before making our smoldering statement. ;^)