[Little Ray]

You are absoulutely correct, but there are over a BILLION Muslims and most want to be left alone. "Millions" wanting us dead could easily be less than one percent.
Unfortunately for them, ignoring terrorists operating in their ...tribal lands (can't really call most Muslim nations "nations" can we?) means that we may to come calling; which will mean friction and probably conflict with folks we could otherwise ignore. What a mess.

[quidnunc]

Little Ray wrote: You are absoulutely correct, but there are over a BILLION Muslims and most want to be left alone. "Millions" wanting us dead could easily be less than one percent. Unfortunately for them, ignoring terrorists operating in their ...tribal lands (can't really call most Muslim nations "nations" can we?) means that we may to come calling; which will mean friction and probably conflict with folks we could otherwise ignore. What a mess.

The people who are informed on the subject — such as Daniel Pipes — say that 10%-15% of Muslims are either militant Islamists or their supporters.

That amounts to at least 125,000,000 to 180,000,000 people who yearn for the demise of the West — in other words, us.

That may be an underestimation.

In Turkey, a secular country with free elections, the Islamist parties normally garner 30%-40% of the vote.

[TheCrusader]

"You are absoulutely correct, but there are over a BILLION Muslims and most want to be left alone. "Millions" wanting us dead could easily be less than one percent."

I strongly disagree with this statement. The bizarre religion of Islam actually inculcates its followers with a mentality of intolerance of other faiths, and a hatred for Jews and Christians. This hateful and paranoid mentality surely mandates that Islamic theocracies must be ruled by tyrants and oppressors. Islam is a religion of hate.

They are at war or civil unrest wherever Islam exists; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Somalia, the Sudan, Rwanda, and now even in the mostly Catholic Philippines where Muslim terrorists are demanding their own state.

And in those very few Islamic nations where there is no warfare or open civil unrest, they are ruled by the iron hands of greedy 'Princes' or theocratic bullies.

[SauronOfMordor]

You are absoulutely correct, but there are over a BILLION Muslims and most want to be left alone. "Millions" wanting us dead could easily be less than one percent. Unfortunately for them, ignoring terrorists operating in their ...tribal lands (can't really call most Muslim nations "nations" can we?) means that we may to come calling;

On Dec 6, 1941, probably only a tiny percentage of the residents of the Japanese islands wanted to go to war with the United States. Unfortunately, all of Japan paid the price.

[Calpernia]

Of the millions you say want to be left alone, do they pursue Khalifah? Do they follow shariah?