The post you just made was quite rational in its assessment of the difference of religions and your predictions on what will come.
As someone who is agnostic and conservative (both) I do not share your opinion on the religious debate but I certainly respect it.
What I can assure you would be sheer lunacy is if Republicans and conservatives (non-Republicans) manage to alienate the Muslim/Arab community from our political circles. We will have once again found a way to get two opposing sides (in this case Jews and Arabs) opposed to us and resenting us.
I just hope people stop and remember that every human is flawed, but that doesn't make every human as evil as Al Qaeda, Hamas, or Hesbollah.
Right now we need friends who like America's way of life, like our liberalized freedoms, and like that we are fair, honest and patient when most of the rest of the world is not.
But to continuously slam Muslims and Arabs will not only ensure that we push them all to the extremists as Bin Laden and others wish, but we will then be crying on election day when our coalition does not include people who are in agreement with us on so many shared interests (including the eradication of terrorism).
These were people you would be proud to call 'friend'; entreprenuers and 20-year citizens of this country. But they knew nothing of what the 'Koran' actually said. Much like our liberal Protestant or Catholic brethren, their commitment to 'islam' as their religion was entirely cultural and ancestral. Thus, when their son died, they were very interested in learning of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, the cultural hold of Mohammedanism at the time was quite strong. As with King Agrippa, they virtually said, "You almost persuade me to become a Christian."
I predict that many Americans of Arab descent, such as our friends, will now make the move from Mohammedanism to Christianity as a result of this brutal and callous act. They will see the primitive paganism of Mohammedanism for what it is. But some will not. We shall see.