Extreme or radical Islam are Western imaginations of their own creation. Muslims do not use the terms. The term they use is Jihad, which encompasses any and all activity aimed toward the establishment of Sharia law and culture on every bit of land on the planet, period. Muslims do not use the term “moderate” Islam...again that is a Western creation, and very dangerous.
Imagining a 1400 year old political system of subservience, slavery, and supremacist politics and culture as something else will prove fatal to Western civilization.
Islam has infiltrated the US at each and every level and we do not yet see the danger, having completely self-deluded ourselves.
Perhaps General Petraeus recognizes this. The State Dept., the DHS, the Pentagon, the military academies, do not.
Muslims must be laughing each time they circle that black rock.
The goals of the Wahabbist based Muslim Brotherhood, founders of CAIR and HAMAS are clear:
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2671
The Shiite theocracy of Persian Islam, Iran, expresses the goals of its Ayatollah and Grand Council through the third in line of ranking, Ahmahdinejad. He too is clear. The West should take them all literally instead of imagining them capable of Western thought and ideology....no such capability exists.
Here's a piece of history they should look back on and wonder what happened ~ Spain ~ they got kicked out. Sicily ~ they got kicked out. Greece ~ they got kicked out. Serbia ~ they got kicked out. Bulgaria ~ they got kicked out. Kazan ~ they got kicked out.
For another reminder some of the places Islamicists got kicked out of they also got "exterminated from" ~ and that part's not over yet.
It's entirely possible they can come up with some variation on a theme that preserves some of their culture, but ultimately they get kicked out and exterminated from everywhere.
Westerners may be slow to rise to the occasion, but in the end they are very destructive and thorough ~ like in Kazan