Even if he is, he is still overreaching. How many American Muslims were on the planes that attacked the WTC? How many domestic terrorist events have Arabic American Muslims been responsible for? None that I know of. And yet, this author wants to paint them with the same brush as Osama Bin Laden.
Our allies in Iraq are MUSLIMS. Our allies in Pakistan are MUSLIMS. The blood they are shedding in this struggle is just as red as ours. It is folly to think we can exterminate the whole religion and make ourselves safe. That's the way our enemies think. We stand for civilization, and so we hold ourselves to a higher standard than that. The kind of rhetoric in this peace only alienates our friends and emboldens our enemies.
Most of us realize that there are good Muslim-Americans. How many? I really dont know. You dont either. Thats the crux of the problem. Our general misunderstanding of each-other has made it impossible to differintiate the good from the bad. My feeling is that there are very few actual militant Muslims in the US, but that there are a significant number of Muslims that to a certain degree sympathize with the terrorists. Then you have the majority that is afraid to speak out. Not a pretty picture. On top of that is a feeling that, if worse comes to worse, their loyalty to their religion trumps all.
But I for one will continue to try to understand and reach out to those that mean well