If we are supposedly at war with Islam

I don't believe we are -- or have ever claimed to be -- at war with Islam.

Thus our strategy must match our means to two ends: dismantling the al
Qaeda network and, in the long term, prevailing over the ideology that contributes
to Islamist terrorism.

page 22 of 31 of 911 summary

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/22_07_04911execsum.pdf

In addition to making anticipated findings on the 2001 plot and recommendations for homeland security, the commission offered a series of foreign policy prescriptions to correct what it suggests is an unbalanced global strategy. The effort is to shift the government away from focusing on what the report calls a "generic evil," and toward a more precise definition of the threat.

The report argues that the nation's enemy consists of two parts: al Qaeda -- a stateless network of terrorists that is "weakened but continues to pose a grave threat" -- and a radical ideological movement in the Islamic world that "is gathering and will menace Americans and American interests long after" Osama bin Laden is gone.


"The enemy goes beyond al-Qaeda to include the radical ideological movement inspired in part by al-Qaeda that has spawned other terrorist groups," the report said. It calls not only for the dismantling of al-Qaeda but an ideological battle against fundamentalist Islam.
 
then how is it some muslims are actually at war against christians, but i don't hear any muslims roundly denouncing it as they would if someone drew a frickin cartoon of their prophet or bombed one of their synogues....

Bomb Hits Egypt Church at New Year's Mass, 21 Dead

A powerful bomb, possibly from a homicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged from a New Years Mass early Saturday, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly 80 in an attack that raised suspicions of an Al Qaeda role.

The attack came in the wake of repeated threats by Al Qaeda militants in Iraq to attack Egypt's Christians.

FoxNews.com - Bomb Hits Egypt Church at New Year's Mass, 21 Dead
Given the degree of intrusion by Western nations into the lives of the world's Moslems, they are probably under the impression that Christians have long since declared war on them!

After centuries of colonization and meddling in their social, economic and political affairs, what possible reason(s) would Westerners have to expect the Muslem world to trust them?
 
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