Being American in part means we take responsibility for our actions, especially when some practicing their faith are Islamic militants and threaten us with dire things if we don’t comply to their demands. So if they don’t want to live in fear, perhaps some of them should take responsibility and step forward and denounce the militant urgings of some of those practicing that faith and crying for a jihad against their neighbors, US citizens. Freedom comes at a cost and to live without fear requires responsibility from those who want it to stop those who want to destroy it.
In 1982 I did see them destroy the Catholic churches, burn the Crucifixes, soil the Madonnas, urinate on the altars, transform the chapels in[to] latrines. I did see them unleash the contempt for the other religions. I did see them in Beirut. That Beirut which until their arrival had been so rich, so happy, so elegant, and which today is a squalid copy of Damascus or Islamabad.... That Beirut where the Palestinians had been accepted by the Christians...
...[muslims] aim to absorb us. To change our principles, our values, our identity, our way of life. And who in the meantime molest us with their retrograde ignorance, their retrograde bigotry, their retrograde religion. I am saying that in our culture there is no room for the muezzins, for the minarets, for the phony abstemious, for the humiliating chador, for the degrading burkah. And should that room exist, I wouldn't give it to them. Because it would be like deleting our identity, like nullifying our accomplishments. Like spitting on the freedom that we have earned, on the civilization that we have installed, on the welfare that we have achieved. It would be like selling my country, my patria.
Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and The Pride