[Sabertooth]

I'll believe the sincerity of the "85% peacefull muslims" when they've gotten that council together and removed the calls for blood from their holy book and I see them marching in the streets against Osama, Al Jazeera, Yasser Arafat, et. al.

Currently the ones I'm actually willing to accept at face value are, ironically, the Iranian masses. Their religious leaders prepare to sacrifice them soon though on the alter of allah, by aquiring the bomb to attack Israel.

modify the religion, by force if necessary, and save the people.

How can you modify a religion that is, at its root, the posthumous personality cult of a seventh century terrorist, conqueror, enslaver, rapist, pedophile, butcher, and murderer?

Call Islam what it is: Mohammedanism.

To cut out the worst of Islam, one must cut out Mohammed.

So how does Islam survive such a surgery?

It can't; the cancer is terminal.

[Axenolith]

Unfortunately our resolve to terminate that cancer is sorely lacking and the terminal prognosis could just as easily be for us as for them.

The analogy is spot on too, the nations are the tumors and the followers migrating willy nilly are the metastitizing cells...

The thing that really amazes me is all of the whimpering "don't go hard on them" folks. Going hard on them now IS mercifull. We won't hear all of this mushy peacenik BS nearly as loudly after a terrorist attack with 10's of thousands of casualties.