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1 billion of them want a global caliphate. Not everyone has to be 100% behind the most militant part of an ideology to make it necessary to destroy that ideology.

We had to destroy naziism and shinto japan. Even though not every single one wanted global domination.

The islamics are 1.2 billion in strength, but they are disorganized. The eventual goal however will unite them to our destruction, unless we act now.

The islamics are 1.2 billion in strength, but they are disorganized

Actually I think you a being a bit niave...they seem pretty organized if they are able to rally all these islamics to protest on one particular day. I don't want to give them too much credit either, but there is an underground network we don't even have a clue how it works, morphs, and changes.

"1 billion of them want a global caliphate."

The same could be said of Christians, Jews, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Every adherent to a given religion believes they have the right answer. As such, they want everyone else to believe the same thing they do. The real question is, how many believe that force is acceptable as a method of conversion. Those are the people I think should be rendered unable to harm others, regardless of what their particular set of beliefs may be. If 1 billion people had it in their heads that their mission from the Almighty was to convert by force or kill everyone who doesn't believe what they do, the Earth would be engulfed in flames this very moment.

"The eventual goal however will unite them to our destruction, unless we act now."

That's the goal of terrorist organization leaders like Osama bin Laden. It isn't the goal of those Muslims who just want to live out their lives as normal people and make better lives for their children. As for us "acting now", you're proposing all-out war against greater than 1/6th of the world's population. Unless you're prepared to unleash worldwide nuclear holocaust, that simply isn't going to work out in our favor. Assuming the world were perfectly polarized (far from true), you would be looking at minimum casualties in the 2 - 3 billion area. Wishing such a thing is the mark of one who thinks like our enemies.