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Brilliant- round them all up and then we'd be even shorter on desperately needed translators than we are now, be denied access to ports and airfields in Muslim countries which were neccessary to even begin a counterattack, tick off the intelligence resources inside countries where we need to operate or which are near where we need to operate, pretty much alienate any of the Afghan, Iraqi, and Iranian resistance which we needed; and just generally give Osama bin Laden and his ilk a big friggin birthday present to bash the US with and draw more recruits. Just brilliant.

Right now, the average American of Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Iranian descent are highly motivated to support our country and have contributed greatly to our war effort, many of them fighting alongside our troops in various countries, giving the local populations in those countries a chance to see how far off the propaganda spewed by the mullahs and clerics was from reality.

CAIR is to American Muslims what DemocraticUnderground or Jessie Jackson's extortion rings are to he rest of us- it's a not representative of our opinions, it's just a lobbying group which the left-leaning press adores and to which it gives the appearance of legitimacy, in spite of the foulness of their messages.

Agreed. I've seen some Muslims who have made me nervous, but I consider myself a pretty good judge of people, and I've met Muslims who I could not imagine supporting terrorism any more than any other American. There are a lot of genuinely apolitical and often non-observant Muslims in this country.
Atta and Co. tried to act Western at times, but they didn't do a very good job at it: they were clearly arrogant, sexist a**holes (IOW, Islamists.)
I don't see the Turkish doctor and his wife who I met over drinks at my cousin's house (they're close friends of his), the Emirati resident assistant at my college dorm who I used to hang out and watch movies with, the Pakistani classmate I tutored in chemistry, or his attractive younger sister, as threats.
Granted, I never talked politics with them, but I knew that they did not regard me as an "infidel" or wish ill to the country they had adopted as their home, and I can't see them being represented by CAIR, let alone supporting UBL and Co.