“Americans however, and the majority of Muslims in the US do not align themselves with cut throat terrorists.”
Do at least consider revising the above line of yours. Muslims must adhere to the Koran or be considered “apostate” and therefore subject to killing by other Muslims.
I suspect you have made the common error of confusing the American, Judeo-Christian based right to worship as you see fit with Islam. That is an error. There is NO variation allowed in Islam.
Look it up.
Fundamentalist Islam is utterly opposed to any sense of Eccumenicalsim..look up Sufi Schools of Islamic Thought..Imam Ghuzali..one is conflating them with Salafistic lines of thought.