You're not wasting your breath...keep reading and keep talking. Hopefully sooner, rather than later, they'll start paying attention to what is in the quran, and to the history of islam.
Me? I can't understand how a war mongering pervert can be given legitimacy by any but the most self-loathing Westerners ... which I suppose explains the "liberal" position.
I don't really fault Bush for his public face vis-a-vis Islam as a religion of "peace": I'm fairly certain he understands its nature, but, politically, he has to be nicey-nice right now ...
Me, I'm not running for anything so ... whatever ... And if I ever do run for anything, this stuff (true understanding of Islam's destructive nature) will hopefully be common knowledge by then ...