If your Moslem friend is a loyal American, he should be taking down the names of those individuals and turning them over to the F.B.I.
We have a Fifth Column in our Nation. It is time to start fighting it.
Carpet bombing Taliban positions in Afghanistan with B-52's is all well and good but it will not affect Homeland Security as much as will the rooting out the radical Islamic fanatic that is already living in Trenton, New Jersey or Palm Beach, Florida or Los Angeles, California.
During World War II, Cuba issued a series of postage stamps that declared "Beware of the Fifth Column". The stamps were part of a public education campaign that urged the public to be on the lookout for individuals who posed as innocent immigrants or businessmen but were actually Nazi spies living in Cuba to report on Atlantic convoy intelligence information.
It is time for America to wake up and get it's head out of the sand. This is a war. I would guess that the average American on the street would give you a blank stare if the term "Fifth Column" were used. A Nation cannot destroy the Fifth Column until that Nation at least acknowledges that the Fifth Column exists.
Political Dictionary: Fifth Column Fifth Column - a treasonous group or faction who give support to an enemy. For example, a nation might be successfully fighting an external enemy, but then be undone by the appearance of a fifth column within their midst. The term dates from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), in which four columns of rebels attacked Madrid, while rebel contingents within Madrid organized a campaign of sabotage and uprisings. They became known as the fifth column.