Did you hear or see the UN address today? Pretty good I'd say....
The American solution to this dilemma is to acknowledge religion as a principal source of moral goodness, while recognizing the danger of religious sectarianism only and precisely insofar as it appears in the form of actions which are immoral regardless of motive. The ruthless destruction of innocent human life, however it may cloak itself in a false language of theology or religiosity, is always and everywhere evil because it is the most manifest repudiation possible of the principle of human equality. This is one reason our founders listed life first among the rights with which our Creator endowed us.
I don't know about the rest of you folks, but for me, the above paragraph is the heart of the message we must try to convey to Muslims. It will then be up to them to 'get it' or not, and die or live based on the notion that we don't really give a hoot about their religion, but we will by God fight to their death over the principle of our human right to hold faith as one sees fit without coercion or violent submission to a particular faith, to their particular faith.
Too many in Islam see this as a religious war. We are not fighting a religious war but they are. We might want to try and change their perception through reasoned debate, but make no mistake, they are primitive in their understanding of our espoused values ... and that's to some degree understandable, given our penchant to export our sick enlightenment hallmarked by abortion slaughter on demand as the favored alternative to other means of dealing with social and personal problems.