That is difficult, because the reality is that Islam creates an environment in which evil can easily flourish. I do not for a moment subscribe to the notion that Islam is a “religion of peace.”

However, a disaffected Muslim is not the same as a radical, violent jihadist, and the latter is a real threat. Burning down the former’s mosque simply creates more of the latter.

What kind of response would we get if we…possibly set a mosque on fire?

First off we’d all be arrested for hate speech.

As well as arson, or possibly murder, and rightly so.

Use your head. Muslims who burn and destroy and riot in response to whatever has offended them are little better than animals.

Americans, despite what so many of my unenlightened Canadian countrymen say, are not animals. Responding to the hysterical overreaction of radical Muslims with hysterical overreaction is not rational, and in fact counterproductive. America, and the West it leads, is better than that.

Radical Islam must be dealt with, harshly and unequivocally; but mindlessly lashing out and burning down mosques and effigies of Mohammed would not solve the problem, satisfying though it may be on a gut level.

That would play directly into the hands of Islamic animals, in the same way that Hizbollah manufactured outrage against Israel by firing at them from hospitals and schoolyards, drawing fire that they knew would kill their own children.

Target their money, and its sources; shine light on them, as does Michelle and her brave co-bloggers; and, perhaps most importantly, distinguish between decent, reasonable Muslims and the vindictive, evil, radical fascists. Isolate the latter and THEN destroy them.

That is difficult, because the reality is that Islam creates an environment in which evil can easily flourish. I do not for a moment subscribe to the notion that Islam is a “religion of peace.”

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and do that.” — Churchill