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It's not a matter of drawing any lines. We Americans have the right to piss on a picture of Allah and to serve Kool-Aid as we do it. However, stupid and pointless is stupid and pointless no matter how we decide to celebrate it.
No one with a brain (that matters) believes that placating towards our enemies will make them love us. However stupid acts of extremism in the Chrisitian world merely excite extremism in the Muslm world. Our enemies are distinct. Focusing on them is what I would expect from a nation that supposedly is educated beyond the rattlesnake passing of backwoods church dumbasses. More of this crap and even the French will seem enlightened.
You are just looking at a symptom, not the cause.
Radical Islam is merely a symptom and is ultimately, not the problem. The problem is that "radical" Islam is not "radical". We call it that to disenfranchise it and separate it from the politically correct "moderate" Islam.
Islam declared jihad and fought to spread Islam from 632 AD until 1699 AD. Over a thousand years. Was that "radical" Islam. The destruction of Israel is pretty recent. Obviously, until recently, there was no Israel. But prior to the establishment of the British Raj, most of the Indian sub-continent was ruled by the Mughal Emperor, a Muslim. India had been part of dar el Islam and Muslims joined in the Sepoy rebellion of 1857 with the stated intention of restoring India to dar el Islam.
So there is historical precedent to re-conquering land that was once Muslim.
So, wtf is "radical" Islam? The fact of the matter is, it is a part of Islam that has always existed because the Koran and Hadith contain so much to support it and this is a common bs misconception (1-3% are actively enganging in active jihad against the Dar al Harib)
In reality, the vast majority of religous (practicing) Muslims support active jihad either passively or actively (money) because it is the bedrock of what is Islam. First, it is 'uncreated' - it has (to a practicing Muslim) always existed, even before the alleged revelation to Mohammad and second...it is the literal word of Allah, in Allah's own language (Arabic) and therefore can not be questioned.