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Exactly. Terrorism is, was, and always will be, a very unlikely event. It doesn't happen very often, but it's very high-profile when it does. I'm pretty sure that the average person has a greater chance of being randomly struck by lightning than to be killed in a terrorist attack. The great lengths we go to, where we sacrifice time, money, privacy, dignity, our pretext of religious and racial equality, and our constitutional freedoms... have all served to perhaps make an incredibly rare event slightly rarer. The cost we have paid is HUGE compared to the negligible return.
In fact we take precautions in our homes, and often in our personal behavior, not to be struck by lightening. We discourage drunk driving, though the odds of getting killed by a drunk might be high.
We take precautions in personal safety every day, and taking precautions against Muslim terrorists, or any terrorists, is no different.