> It is important to distinguish between the fanatics and the mainstream. There are elements within Islam that are dangerous, those need to be weeded out and eliminated.
How are you going to do that? "Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," like Ann Coulter says? Is there some sort of test by which the degree of their zealotry can be measured? Will the sermons of their leaders be monitored by DHS for non-mainstream content? If they are American citizens, would you have them imprisoned?
> However, it is simply preposterous to say that everyone practicing Islam is a fanatic who is 10 seconds away from bombing your local coffee house or theater.
Whether the girl in front of me in the checkout line has a bomb strapped onto her under her veil is only a matter of the distance between here and Tel Aviv. Or is it the distance between here and Madrid...or NYC?