“what is the appropriate response we, as a society, must make?”
There really is no option. The key problem with peaceful responses is the muslims are using our traditions and laws against us. They profess to be peaceful up until they have around 35% of a population and then they dispense with the pleasantries.
“They profess to be peaceful up until they have around 35% of a population and then they dispense with the pleasantries.”
I’m afraid the situation will need to be very bad before we as a society will respond. The left, who are loosely “American” will sound the multi-cultural trumpet until they are the last ones standing. Then, they will be converted to Islam or killed. They’ll convert and smugly tell everybody that was the plan all along. Part of the problem is a generation of identity politics that has gotten multiculturalism into law and into government contracts. Also, the taxpayer is helping Islam out. I read that Obama has given $800,000,000,000 to Hezbollah.
Regarding Islam, the religion of peace; somebody pointed out the average Nazi citizen and the average Soviet citizen were not in favor of war and did not want to destroy America. But they were the soil from which Nazism and Sovietism blossomed and, because of them, America had to deal with the results.