[nuconvert]

But those are the radicals. The "5%", as KennyBunk puts it.

[thoughtomator]

Even if it's just 5% (I personally believe it's 2-4 times that figure), we're still talking 60+ million people. Do you really think there is an equivalent 50 million or so Christians who would like to similarly cleanse the world of nonbelievers? And what do we do about those 60 million? Simply let them pursue their plans in plain sight?

I think you have to face the reality that Islam is a unique religion in its tendency towards murder. Nobody worries about radical Bhuddists, or radical Hindus, or radical Confucians. The "worst" you'll get from a radical Christian is a daily vigil at an abortion clinic. And from a radical Jew? The insistence on the right to pray at the West Wall without being murdered, maybe?

I'm afraid that your moral equivalence scale is unbalanced. Religions of peace and religions of genocide are not equally worthwhile. The problem is not that the Islamic fundamentalists are wrong in their interpretation of Islam... the problem is that they are right.