You know, it's interesting. We Freep and rail against these things and say things like "when these guys actually do something bad like domestic terror... They are doing it now, we aren't doing anything about it, most people probably will meekly get into the cattle cars with some faint hope that somehow things will work out. I predict that, like the people on the airplane who fought the hijackers on 9/11, some of us will take the battle to the @ssholes and we'll have us a civil war. As of now, we could win, I think, but watching Hizballa in Lebanon, it might not be too long until they will be able to match us.
You are presuming that non-Muslims would NEVER herd "suspected" Al-Qaeda into a ditch and shoot them out of hand, just on spec. The veneer of civilization is not so thick, and since Islam insists on screeching how it will kill the West, some day soon the West will take them at their word and the shooting will REALLY start. We can wipe out whole populations in days, and Islam is betting we won't. I think they are trying to draw to fill an inside straight.