It occurs to me that, as Americans, we are bombarded daily with news about extremists acting on their beliefs. It is the prevalence of these supposed extremists that fuels the anti-Mesopotamian sentiment that is quietly and not-so-quietly spreading among the western nations. Take switzerland, for example, and their recent ban on building minarets
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/wo...inarets&st=cse, or any fox news broadcast on any day ever. Anyway before I get too off topic, the point is that it surprises me that one would post that there are rarely any extremists that act on their views when the entire justification for the multiple wars we Americans are in at this very moment is that there are extremists all over the world ready to die for their beliefs at any moment. If you take conglomerate-controlled news media seriously, and I think most people do, given the US invasions of the middle east, extremism is widespread and rampant.