I'll bet a nickel that this quote edited one important little word.
While Jasser is to praised for his fairness and patriotism, and while there ARE Muslims who sympathize with his views, the anemic response of the 50,000 member Muslim Community in that part of the Country bears sad testimony to the reality of Islam and its socio-political perspective of Freedom and America.
That perspective has been recounted numerous times overseas, if we but had the wisdom to perceive it.
Thanks to America, Afghanistan did not become a Communist Slave State. The Muslims of Afghanistan reciprocated by demonstrating their gratitude with the Taliban, Osama Bin Laddin and 9-1-1.
Americans came to the aid of Muslims in Bosnia and Muslims the world over demonstrated their gratitude by blaming US for 9-1-1.
Americans freed the Iraqi people from a brutal and savage dictator and the average Iraqi in the street demonstrates his gratitude by killing American military men from ambush, killing and mutliating American civilians, and wildly celebratnig in the streets over American corpses.
As for Turkey and Malayasia - if these are examples of progressive Islamic countries, its only through comparison with other Islamic "paradises" like Saudi Arabia - our "Ally" and Iran, etc., that they appear to be an improvement.
Americans fail to perceive the real nature of Islam. Muslims, when speaking with theologically and historically challenged Americans and other Westerners, they, like their Communist analogues of an earlier generation, are glib liars who unabashedly employ a vocabulary of deceit.
Islam does not condone conversion by force, but de facto, it demands a theocratic state which makes life so miserable for the non-Muslim that most of them are forced to convert to survive.
Islam does not advocate war, but justifies it to defend and expand Islam. In fact, Islam divides the entire world into the House of War (non-Islamic Countries) and the House of Peace (Countries under the Islamic yoke.)
Islam is a cult, not a religion and its sole goal is to convert the world to its belief system - by violence or by infiltration.
While every individual human heart and spirit may desire and merit freedom, not every political system and its adherents interpret that word in the same light.
Their faith is also compatible with assassination and carbombs. So is ours, but that is beside the point.
Their faith is only compatible with violence.
And since Islam encourages LYING to non-Muslims this means what?