Originally Posted by RichieLion

I certainly understand your anger, and to a large degree am sympathetic, but if you read this article and other similar observational accounts, you can deduce that a good number of Americanized Muslims who've come to love our way of life while trying to observe their religious beliefs are kept silenced by the radical clerics who control the vast majority of Mosques. These mosques and the radical/mainstream Islamics who control them have been propped up by our own government for years in the interest of energy needs, strategic location and misquided diplomacy.
I only posted this article to present a view of this issue that might stimulate conversation. I don't expect these "Americanized Muslims", as I labeled them, to have any serious prospect of toning down the hate of America and its values that are preached in the very Mosques that they attend in the near future, and probably ever, but it's still worth noting.