Extremist ideology provides the basis for terrosits attacks against us and creates a recruiting pool for getting young men to carry out such attacks and an atmosphere for cheering on or not opposing those attacks against us.
Yes, there are a lot of Moslems who do not support this ideology so I'll accept that we are not at war with Islam.
But there are too many who react like this to any perceived slight:
Days of rioting between Christians and Muslims in eastern Pakistan following allegations that a Quran was defiled escalated Saturday, leaving six Christians dead, including a child, authorities said.
Members of a banned Muslim organization began torching Christian homes in the Punjabi city of Gorja on Thursday after accusing them of desecrating pages from Islam's holy book, Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said.
"There is no truth in the allegation," he told The Associated Press, adding that he had himself visited Gojra on Friday and asked police to provide protection to Christians who were facing threats.
And it doesn't even matter if it was a false rumor. What is relevant is the reaction of so many Moslems.
We can't say we are making real progress in defeating the Islamo-fascist ideology that recruits and supports attacks against us until a report of Koran desecration is true, Moslem elites call it "art," some imams organize a letter-writing campaign and boycott the sponsors, and the vast majority of the Moslem world grimaces at the idiocy of the so-called art and then goes on with their life.
This is why it is a long war.
