Good point, JFM. Ironic thing is, the Islamic fundementalists don't wish to destroy us because of our religious fervors, but in spite of them. They are much more in fear of our "secular humanism", which, in their view, undermines their "tunnel-visioned" Islamic view of religious life.

This irony is greatly compounded by the fact that when our European ancestors were scratching a living in the mud, burning witches, and quivering at every prouncement of the Papacy, the Moslems had a thriving, robust intelligentsia researching mathematics, science, economics, and philosophy. Somehwere, along the timelines, this has degenerated into the present Islamic extremist/anti-"Zionist"/Western craziness which is besetting the modern world.

To paint all Moslems with this broad brush is too broad an overstatement, but we are not at war with the vast, majority normal Moslems; but we are at war with the Osamas, and his allies. All of us, religious and secular, alike!