[Dave S]

A few terrorists? There are estimates by Daniel Pipes, a noted expert, that 10-15% of the moslem world is extremist

Some days I think 10% of Freepers would take up arms against the US if they thought they could get away with it. Ten to fifteen percent is a minority. Are we to "nuke" 1.5 billion because a few are totally screwed up?

And when it comes to arabs in the US, remember most US arabs are Christian, not Muslim. This is especially true for those that have been in this country for 25 years or more. Also only about a third of the Muslims in this country are arabs. Roughly a third are black and a third asian. Toss in a few Johnny Jihads and there you have it.

[texasbluebell]

Well, 10-15% of what is the moslem population of the world? That is not a tiny figure! The moslems have never stopped believing that islam must be the world's religion. I'm talking about centuries of this belief. They were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683 (the date was in fact Sept 11) and if they had gotten through Vienna, Europe would itself now be moslem.

They were slowed down for a century or 2 after that, but now with increased access to mass transportation, they're back in the game. Don't be fooled by them. Do some reading by some writers like Emerson and Pipes. Honestly, the goal of islam is to make all of us moslems, and to have islamic republics in every country of the world.

And in spite of the media outcry, Bush was absolutely correct to call this a crusade, for it's in fact a continuation of what Europe had to do in the middle ages.