"...Depressingly, the only time Muslims get seen and heard by the world is when the pitiless among them turn to sickening violence..." The MOST 'depressing' thing about moslems is that they exist.
But that's not necessarily a permanent state of affairs.
God willing and the creek don't rise maybe there will come a day when children everywhere will ask the question:
"Grandpa, what were moslems?"
What a horrible position to be in. Her effort to rationalize the acts of muslim terrorists in order to live with her chosen religion, makes the 'west' responsible for everything the terrorists do. This is pitiful. When christians were bombing abortion clinics, as christians we could never rationalize those acts and blame the bombing on anyone other than the bombers. Maybe its a poor comparison, but murder is murder.