As you noted:
While Indonesia is known as a secular, tolerant society that practices a moderate form of Islam, radical Islamists have gained momentum......To its credit, since October 2002 the Indonesian government has cooperated with U.S. and Australian officials in their attempts to disrupt terrorist networks in Southeast Asia.
Will the Indonenian government and the vast majority moderate islamic population continue to be cooperative if they perceive the West is attacking their religion and not the extremists who have coopted the religion to support their terrorist goals?
While Iran has the most radical regime among all the muslim countries, it also has the most secular population, particularly among those under 30 yrs old, which is the vast majority of the country.
I'll make the same argument again....Will the vast majority of young, moderate muslims in Iran who want a more secular government feel an affinity to the US and the West if they perceive we are attacking their religion and not the extremists who have coopted the religion to support their terrorist goals?
Turkey and Egypt are models of relatively "moderate" Muslim republics (Egypt to a lesser degree until it has real open elections) both of which recognize Israel and acknowledge that they can peacefully co-exist.
Are there anti-US extemists dancing the streets.....absolutely. Will that increase if it is perceived that the West is attacking the religion and not the extemists?
I could go on through each country listed. My point is we need a policy to address the extemists and not attack the religion by cherry-picking passages of the Koran.
We need to be pressuring more moderate muslims to speak out and to reform the radical components of their religion as christianity did over time.
We need to be countering the anti-American propaganda that is spread throughout the muslim world by Al Jazeera.
We dont need to be enflaming the majority of moderate muslims with rhetoric that comes across as an attack on their religion.