Let's be honest and acknowledge our own political bias while we're at it. If a Democratic president had stood up after 9/11 and publicly proclaimed that "Islam is a religion of peace," we would have rightly laughed it off as the idiotic rantings of a retarded baboon.
On 9/11, once it became clear it was Muslims who had done it, I was posting on FR that we had been struck in a blind spot in our Political system, because we had NO WAY to deal with a religion as an opponent.
Sadly I certainly feel vindicated in that outlook more then a decade later...