Ultimately, we have no Muslim allies.
We are not going to fight one billion Muslims
Won't be necessary. But if it comes to that, then it comes to that. There's many more billions of people in this world who are not Muslim.
Jim Pavitt, CIA Deputy Director for Operations, Address to Duke University Law School Conference April 11, 2002:
Our war is not against Islam. . .The war in which our country finds itself now, a war which we did not seek but one we are determined to win, is not a war against a people or a war against a faith. It is a war against a terrible distortion of human and religious values. It's not merely a war to defend our way of life, it's a war to defend life itself. To be sure, despair and disappointment are the raw materials of terror, but it's building blocks are ignorance and intolerance. And it is those evils which are fostered by extremists who have nothing to do with genuine piety that produce the fanatical terrorists which can perpetrate the kind of action we saw on the 11th.As President Bush has said, this will be a long and difficult war. Some of the battles are very visible, others are not. But most are waged by a coalition of nations—Muslim and non-Muslim alike, for we all face a common threat, and all share a deep, deep revulsion for the teachings and tactics of terrorism. Alongside with military and diplomatic coalitions, there's something I think very important and that is a global coalition of intelligence services. From around the world, from our allies and our partners, we receive and we share information. We plan operations together and together in many instances we take terrorists off the streets. . .
http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/pavitt_04262002.html