[glennshepard]

It’s good to see this sort of thing...the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists - a point lost on many Americans, I fear. Assymetric conflicts, such as GWOT, require an incredible amount of cultural understanding to win and this sort of video helps in that understanding.

[rmlew]

It’s good to see this sort of thing...the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists - a point lost on many Americans, I fear. Assymetric conflicts, such as GWOT, require an incredible amount of cultural understanding to win and this sort of video helps in that understanding.
really?

I see the opposite problem here in New York. Too many people don't want to see the problem. They imagine that it is only a few thousand fundamentalist lunatics and many more nationalists. They don't understand the base of support.

The sad fact is that if 1% are dangerous, 10% are militant Islamists, and 14% are sympathetic for a total of 25%, then we are dealing with a larger population almost the size of the United States and 10,000,000 potential terrorists.

[WesternCulture]

“It’s good to see this sort of thing...the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists - a point lost on many Americans, I fear. Assymetric conflicts, such as GWOT, require an incredible amount of cultural understanding to win and this sort of video helps in that understanding.”

- True.

On the other hand, a lot of comparatively sane Muslims seem mentally incapable of dealing with the mere existence of Islamofascism. To some extent, they even deny it exists.

A large share of the Muslims believe 9/11 was staged by Non-Muslims like people working for the CIA or a conspiracy among the ‘ruling elite’ of the US.

My experience is that few Muslims who live in the West support any kind of terror attacks in the name of Islam, but simultaneously distrust of the West is at an all time high.

A major problem concerning the struggle to make the Muslim World more democratic is that most Muslim’s don’t want our help in this field, while there, simultaneously, is little that Muslim friends of democracy CAN do on their own against Islamofascist leaders like those residing in Tehran.

[Beckwith]

the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists - a point lost on many Americans

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, gaggg!

[Publius6961]

It’s good to see this sort of thing...the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists - a point lost on many Americans, I fear. Assymetric conflicts, such as GWOT, require an incredible amount of cultural understanding to win and this sort of video helps in that understanding.

Accurate, but misleading statements.
Yes, the vast majority of muslims are not active terrorists, but for each active one there must exist 100 in direct support, and another 1000 complicit through silence.
The terrorist support system, as it were.

Yes, there is an incredible amount of ignorance required to deflect the discussion from reality to "understanding". The reality is islam, all of them, mean to kill us. They say it every day, none of them actively deny it in constant and meaningful ways, and I believe the killers.

[semaj]

"...the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists..."

Not yet, anyway.

I'm afraid it doesn't take a whole lot to turn them into extremists, and that's the problem I have with Islam in general. We have seen it happen over and over again. The description of a moderate Muslim for some reason or another going bonkers and kill even their close associates and friends (roommates). Hmmm, that reminds me of the pit-bull threads.

[photodawg]

It’s good to see this sort of thing...the vast majority of Muslims are obviously not extremists - a point lost on many Americans, I fear. Assymetric conflicts, such as GWOT, require an incredible amount of cultural understanding to win and this sort of video helps in that understanding.

‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’

Read “The Enemy at Home” by Danesh D’Souza.He has been attacked by both libs and conservatives for the thesis that radical islam is using the liberal attack on basic American traditional values to radicalize moderate muslims. The jihadists contention is that atheistic American left is turning America into a pagan immoral playground for the devil. Interesting perspective. We may have more in common with muslims than we do with the anti-Christian left in our own country. Definitely deserves further analysis.