“So, the moment a Tom Tancredo or someone like him gets into a position of power makes a statement like this, how do you think that might strike our moderate muslim allies we have worked so hard for four years to develop?”
I think it might strike them that they’d better do something to control the extremists. Their religion mandates pilgrimages to Mecca, so they would have a strong incentive to make sure that their holy city stays safe.
You and I disagree, then.