The first piece you give here cites "Survey research and elections" and says that fundamentalists constitute "no more than 10%" of the population. The other two are more speculative, and don't cite any reports.
BTW, I'm not the one wasting time trying to claim that the likes of the KKK, IRA, etc. are a real threat in the 21st century.
You seem to be stating that deadly threats faced in the first 6 years of the century will remain as threats for the rest of the century. The politics of security aren't that permanent. Bin Ladin was our anticommunist ally 2 decades years ago. Russia was at our throats in Cuba 4 decades ago. Germany, Italy, and Japan were bloodthirsty dictatorships 6 decades ago. 8 decades ago, one out of every six white men in America wanted to kill me. One century ago the Philippine War was the life-and-death struggle for Western Civilization.
The fact that you even bother to bring them into this discussion shows that's exactly what you are trying to do despite your throwaway line "It is clear that Islamist terrorists are our most pressing enemies at this time."
I was responding to a post that claimed that almost every terrorist was a Muslim by naming 7 very deadly and very well known terrorist groups with no roots in Islam few, if any, Muslim members.
Hello - I was reading the thread and came across this remark. I wanted to inquire as to a reference you might have for this assertion.
I read the above sentence to mean that Bin Laden and the US were in some way working in a coordinated manner against the Soviet Union. In the readings I have done, I have not seen a compelling case for such a cooperative venture.