In the months following 9/11 Americans went on a spending spree buying books relating to Islam and life in the Middle East.
Osama Bin Laden was reported to have been convinced that this was the start of the Islamization of America. Why else would all those Americans be so interested in Islam?
What he didn't understand was that Americans wanted to better understand their enemy.
Before 9/11 Islam was looked at by Americans as a beign desert religion steeped in mysticism. That all changed after Americans delved into the heart of Islamic religion.
Muslims today are just as ignorant about the feelings of the average American toward Islam as Osama Bin Laden was. Americans better understand the nature of Islam today, and as a result they see muslims as enemies of Western civilization.
Muslims have a right to be afraid as long as they hold onto every belief as written in the Quran.
That's the crux of the entire matter.
For the rest of the world to ever trust Mooze-lims again, the Mooze-lims are going to have to explain to us how they can abandon the portions of their sacred holy scripture which exhort them to kill all the rest of us who won't convert.
More generally, they will have to explain how anyone who has subscribed to a particular religious faith can pick and choose among the tenets of that faith, selecting some of them and not others.
Otherwise, we can only conclude that the relationship of the rest of the world with Islam, as long as Islam continues to exist, will forever be a choice between an endless horror and a horrible end.