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If majority of muslims weren't peaceful with millions of American muslims you'd be seeing suicide bombings on a daily basis.

If the majority weren't peaceful you wouldn't be seeing the mass crackdown on extremists throughout the mid-east.

If the majority weren't peaceful you wouldn't be seeing the radicals attacking the moderates more vehemently than they're even attacking us.

Nonsense. How soon you forget. The majority of Muslims worldwide are sympathetic to Jihad. Their scriptures tell them it is their duty and destiny to rule the world, repress all other religions and destroy all infidel governments. The fact that most of them are too busy staying alive to directly participate in the war against Dar al-Harb doesn't mean they are not sympathetic to the goals of the smaller number of Islamists that are taking the fight to the west.

Osama bin Laden is a huge folk hero in the Muslim world. His popularity rating among ordinary Muslims surged to nearly 80 percent in the aftermath of 9/11. It has plunged (but not among the youth) lately only because he hasn't been able to pull off an encore. Thank God for the Marines, Rangers, and Special Forces.

But make no mistake about it. If al Qaeda manages to detonate a nuke in an American city and kill hundreds of thousands or millions of US citizens there will be nonstop mass jubilation in Muslim countries around the world, and bin Laden's popularity among ordinary Muslims will surge through the stratosphere again.

There will be official lip service denouncing the attacks as a betrayal of "true" Islam, but the majority of Muslims worldwide will be beside themselves with joy, just as they were on 9/12/2001.

Well maybe I overstated my case, ...apologies. However, isn't it about time that the Muslim leadership (i.e. clerics) started getting into the game a bit more and make it clear that they condem this s**t on a broad basis and make the population understand it?