Free Republic

From Indonesia to the Middle East, Muslims were aghast Wednesday after an American congressman raised the suggestion that the United States could "take out" Islamic holy sites if there was a nuclear attack on it by Muslim fundamentalists. Many said the comments only fuel Islamic extremism and leave Muslims feeling that Americans equate terrorists with all of Islam. "American mentality imagines that a religion is attacking another religion, and here lies the danger," Ahmed al-Haj Ali, a Syrian political analyst, said. He called it "frightening" to "retaliate against the birthplace of Islam for individual criminal acts or acts committed by...