Every religion, race and culture has radicals including the US;Muslim Raidicals are no exception.The fundamental issue that is so misunderstood and often distorted is that the radicals who happen to be Muslim and their Radicalism, has absolutely nothing to do with Islam:it has to do with Political grievances from within by despotism and repressive tyrants in the Arab/Muslim world and from without in trems of foreign military intervention such as Bush's invasion,destruction and occupation of Iraq Or the festering and longest military occupation in modern history of Arab Palestine for the past sixty years by a colonial settler state-as Maxime Rodinson put it-that is the racist apartheid jewish theocracy,Israel.

The problem is deeply rooted in Political Grievances such as the Professor pointed out in Morrocan death cells-such grievances take an Islamic expression and garb because there are no other legitimate institutionalized channels of experssion:no democarcy and no freedom of expression in the Muslim world with few exceptions.

Islam is moderate by definition and a Muslim is moderate by Quranic definition-this is abundantly crystal clear in the Quran and the Sunnah.But moderation does not mean accepting foreign occupation such as the Bush's of Iraq and I say that because the occupation of Iraq is against evry grain of American values and mind set except for radical extreme right wing neo-cons Christians and I might add jews such as Wolfaitz and Perle because of their loyality to the colonail settler apartheid state;Moderation also is not accepting jewish occupation of Palestine-and the so called "Arab Moderate states" are nor more than self-serving dictators whose priority is not to liberate PAlestien and Iraq but to deseprately cling to their dicatroships.

The Quran, the Bible and all human laws and norms sanction self-dfense: The Quran says :"Fight those who fight you But don't transgress because God loves not the transgresors" and "Fight those who turn you out-up root you-from your homes;" That is absloutely rational and just.
To eradicate radicalsim the west must deal with its causes:Political Giievances such as ending the jewish occupation of Palestine and Bush's war on Iraq and stop supporting dictators in the Muslim world.