I hear many people trying to distinguish “radical Islam” from “Islam” as if there is a difference. Muslims are called Muslim because they identify with the doctrines of Islam. There is not a “radical Islam”. Islam is radical. There are Muslims who do a good job of deceiving the infidel by white-washing most of the evil doctrine of Islam. I’ve read the post-9/11 writings and listened to MP3 of Mormons, including lectures of academics at BYU in their Middle Eastern Studies curriculum. They apologetically relate with and defend Islam - still. They are enamored by the persecution they share, the latter day prophet concept, the “new holy books” they have in common, and perhaps, their shared preference for multiple wives, despite the forced ban a century ago. Any religion that identifies with Islam shares in the evils of Islam and cannot be trusted or condoned.
As I stated, my own opinion, and shared by most LDS people I know, is that we cannot afford to “nation-build” Islamic nations. If we fight them, we MUST go in with absolute overwhelming force and destroy not only the jihadists camps and forces, but anyone who gives them support and sanctuary...meaning the populations that do so...just like we did with in Germany with the Nazis.
If there are those who would fight with us, then they better separate themselves clearly from the enemy and fight the enemy just as hard...and there are those that do.
But trying to imply that somehow Romney or the LDS are going to placate and be sympathetic to these enemies is simply not true.
That is all.