DIRECT EXPERIENCE

David Coleman Headly (Daood Sayed Gilani), Nancy Conde Rubio, Ahmad Wais Afzali, Najibullah Zazi, Aifa Siddiqui, Zanaib Taleb-Jedi, Aduras Abdulle Ali, Abdul Tawai Ibn Alishtari, Ehsanul Islam Sadwquee, Mohammed Ali Hasan Al-Moayad, Nachimuthu Socrates, Syed Haris Ahmed, Karunakaran Kandasamy, Vijayshanthar Patpanathan, Pratheepan Thavaraja, Murugesu Vinayagmoorthy, Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, Patrick Abraham, Burson Augustin, Rotschild Augustine, Narseal Batiste, Stanley Grant Phanor, Oussama Kassir, Akram Abdallah, Ali Saleh Kalah al-Marri, Abdifatah Yusef Isse, Rahmat Ahbdhir, Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi, Wesam Al Delaema, Kamal Hassan, Imdad Ullah Ranjah, Bryant Neal Vinas, Sahilal Sabaratnam, Nadarasa Yograrasa, Parvez Mehmood Sandhu, Khaleel Ahmed, Zubair Ahmed, Saleh Elahwal, Javed Iqbal, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka, Mohamed Ibrahim Shnewer, Serdar Tatar, Derick Shareef, Mufid Abdulqadar, Shukri Abu Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohammed El-Mezain, Abulraham Odeh, Monzer Al Kassar, Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, Mazhar Iqbal Chughtai, Saifullah Anjum Ranjha, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, Mohammed Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, Wassim Mazloum, Christopher Paul, Richard David Hupper, Yzsith Chhun, Hassan Abujihaad, Mohammad Doudzai, Nadia Naeem, Muhammad Mubayyid, Emadeddin Muntassar, Eyad Suleiman, Carmen Maria Ponton Caro, Victor Daniel Salamanca, Edizon Ramirez Gamboa, Zuhair Hamed El-Shwehdi, , Nabi Nabil, Abdullah Kasem Ahmed Muthana, Jalal Sadat Moheisen, Nicolas Ricardo Tapasco Romero, Agron Abdullah, Jose Tito Libio Ulloah Melo, Bernardo Valdes Londono, Julio Cesar Lopez, Luis Alfredo Danza Morales, Vinh Tan Nguyen, Jose Padilla, Kifan Jayyousi, Adham Hassoun, Ernest James Ujaama, Mohammed El-Zahabi, Nuradin M Abdi, Michael Curtis Reynolds, Simon Trinadad, Rafiq Abdus Sabir, Thirunavukarasu Varatharasa, Daniel Joseph Maldonado, Haniffa Bin Osman, Tarik Shah, Mahmud Faruq Brent, Hector Rodriquez-Acevedo, Haji Subandi, Erick Wotulo, Sabri Benkahla, Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, Muhammed Hamid Khali Salah, Reinhard Rusli, Halmi Soedirdja, Shiraz Syed Qazi, Mohemmed Subeh, Khalid Awan, Irfan Kamranm Abdul Qayyum, Kobie Diallo Williams, Abdulraman Farhane, Mohamed Shorbagi, Muhiddin Yassin Aref, Mohemmed Hossain, Ronald Grecula, Lina Berro, Noura Berro, Sami Ahmad Berro, Sadek Berro, Zeinab Berro, Almire Ali-Sadek Berro, Houda Mohamad Berro, Abul Halim Berro, Abdulamir Berro, Bilal El-Sablani, Abdul Karim Akram Berro, Amira Ali Farhat, Ali Abdul Farhat, Ahmed Murshed, Akram Abdul Karim Berro, Troy M Peters, Mohamed Albanna, Hatim Naji Fariz, Arwah Jabar, Ali Asad Chandia, Umer Hayet, Shahawar Martin Siraj, Saleh Ali Nasser, Monasser Omian, Sadik Omian, Jarallaw Wasil, Hamid Hayat, Chao Tung Wu, Sami Amin Al-Arian, Syed Mustajab Shah, Monir Awada, Nemr Ali Rahal, Fadi Mohammed Maatouk, Fawaz Rahal Rania, Abdulhakeem Nour, Uzair Paracha, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, Omar Abdi Mohamed, Tariq Gujar, Ali Makki, Tarek Makki, Abad Elfgeeh, Aref Elfgeeh, Ali Maatouk, Naji Antoine Abi Khalil, Tomer Grinberg, Lynn Wingate, Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily, Herbert Villalobos, Michael Wagner, Mark Robert Walker, Heman Lakhani, Hussain A Berro, Ali Al-Timimi, Samih Fadl Jamal, Zacarias Moussaoui, Fanny Cecelia Barrera-De Amaris, Akem Abodayah, Mahmood Youssef Kourani, Cedric Carpenter, Lamon Ranson, Carlos Gamarra-Murillo, Mohammad Salman Farooq Qureshi, Rafi Dhafir, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Lynne Stewart, Mohammed Yousry, Amr I Elgindy, Jeffrey Royer, Ali Mohammed Al Mosaleh, Zameer Mohamed, Ali Khaled Steitye, Saleh Eldin Ali El Hage, Hasan Ali Ayesh, Elmeliani Benmoumen, Edgar Fernando Blanco Puerta, Kamran Shaikh, Soliman Bihiri, Farida Ahmed, Manthena Raja, Imran Khan, James Elshafay, Yildirim Beyozit Turner, Hussein Nasrallah, Abdurahman Muhammed al-Amoudi, Basman Elashi, Bayan Elashi, Ghassan Elashi, Hazim Elashi, Fawaz Mohammed Damrah, Osama Musa Alferahin, Carlos Adolfo Romero-Panchano, Mohammed Junaid Babar, Abdulghefur Abdul Hassan, Moinudden Ahmed Hameed, Yehuda Abraham, Mohamed Daher, Issam Hassan Fawaz, Hammad Abdur-Raheem, Seifullah Chapman, Masoud Ahmad Khan, Muhammed Abid Afridi, Ilyas Ali, Aref Ahmed, Ali Daher, Numan Maflahi, Yaudat Mustafa Talyi, Adrianna Gladys Mora, Sayed Abdul Malike, Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Hamdi, Todd Randall Royer, Tarek Abdelhamid Sallam, Lori Foley, Jamil Salem Sarsour, Elkin Alberto Arroyave Ruiz, Fadi Haydous, Jeffrey Leon Battle, Patrice Lamumba Ford, Soliman S Biheiri, Amna Mahmoud, October Martinique Lewis, Mohammed Aatique, Hassan Abdallah, Hassan Moussa Makki, Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, Ali Mohamad Akhdar, Artur Tchibassa, Bassam Kamel Khafagi, Yong Ki Kwon, Donald Thomas Surrat, Khwaja Mohmood Hasan, Hosam Yousef, Jubara, Maher Mofeid Hawash, Elias Akhdar, Robert Hansen, William G Hatfield, Priscilla Dhafir, Uwe Jensen, Marlon Rodriguez, Hussein Abuali, Hussein Addelhafiz Samhan, Mukhtar Al-Bakri, Ahmed Ali, Yasein Taher, Lymen Farris, Ayman Jarwan, Carlos Ali Romero Varela, Osameh Al-Wahaidy, Omar SHishani, Salim Nemir Awde, Nabil Mohamad Ismail, Brandy Bowman, Carol Gordon, Ernest James Ujaama, Sahim Alwan, Youssef Hmimssa, Libardo Florez-Gomez, Ahmad Mohamad Hariri, Yahya Goba, Shafal Mosed, Salim Boughader-Mucharrafille, Khalid Awan, Choudhry Hussain, Suhail Sarwer, Patricia Serrano-Valdez, Jose Guillermo Alvarez-Duenas, Enaam Arnaout, Mohamed Suleiman Al-Nalfi, John Earl Johnson, Faysal Galab, Mohamed Ahmed Issa, Yaser Khatib, Nageeb Abdul Jabar Mohamed Al-Hadi, Rabi Ahmed, Majeda Dweikat, Osama Yousef Basnan, Richard Reid, Ahmad Abeed Ahmad Ahmad, Nabil Sarama, Abdurahman Khalil Koshak, Karim Tebbakh, Jean Tony Oulai, Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, Saleh Ali Almari, Hussein Al Attas, Derrick Cleveland, John Walker Lindh, Ahmed Abdulla Elashmouny, Mohadar Mohamed Abdoulah, Mohammed Hammoud, Chawki Hammoud, Ayub Ali Khan, Ihsan Elashyi, Kamel Mohammed Trabeisi, Nabil Al-Marabh, Ashar Iqbal Butt, Mohammed Azmath, Kumeit Al-Saraf, Mohamed Hussein, Javaid Iqbal, Eyad Al Rababah, Mubarek Almutari, Kamel Albred, Haider Alshomary, Moeen Islam Butt, Mohammed Ibrahim Refai, Wathek Al-Atabi, Omer Salmain Saleh Bakarbashat, Raad Al-Maleky, Samir Almazaai, Nasser Abuali, Ahmad Kilfat, Akeel A Aboudy, Ali F Alazawi, Mohammed Maddy, Mustafa Al-Aboody, Hisham Al-Shiblawy, Ifikhar Ahmed, Sabah Al-Hachami, Fadhil Al-Khaledy, Hussain Al-Obaidi, Hussain Sudani, Agus Budiman, Zuhaier Ben Mohammed Rouissi, Said Harb, Malek Mohamed Seif, Nadim Dawe, So fiane Laimeche, Montaser Hamdan Al Hamdan, Assam Abdail, Faisal M Al Salmi, Mohammed Pervez, Mustafa Kilfat, Ehab Elmaghraby, Armoghan Alandon, Arkan Alandon, Robert Ferrari, Haider Al Tamimi, Arsalan Absar Rizvi, Nasri Al Hamdan, Muhamed Nasir Bin Hasher Alghamdi, Wael Kishk, Ali Alubeidy, Salman Hyder, Mohammed Basheer Al Qaryuti, Ahmed Nawaz Atta, Sabre Abassi, Maher Yousef Abu-Zbaida, Roxanne Kopke, Mujahid Abdul Menepta, Hadir Awad, Mohamed Abdi, Alawi Hussain Al-Baraa, Salam Ibriham El Zaatari, Hafiz Khalil Ahmad, Nermine Hani Ayoub Al Khammash, Abdul Farid, Sherif Khamis, Imitiaz Siddiqu, Luis Flores-Martinez, Ben Sami Fathi Hafaidh, Vincente Rafel Pierre, Traci Upshur, Jamshed Iqbal, Jawaid Iqbal, Victor Flores-Lopez, Khalid Al Draibi, Atif Raza, Hossain El Ouariachi. Kenys Galicia, Manel Fall, Hafiz Tauseef, Aisha Younes, Arshad Hussain, Faycal Haddoumi, Kamal Rahmani, Ansar Mahmood, Francois Guagani

Direct Experience

Someone suggested we set aside bigotry and rely on direct experience to formulate our opinions on terrorism.  Here is the list of 403 convictions for terrorism or terrorism related charges between 9/11/01 and 3/18/10.  Are they all terrorists?  Undoubtedly not. Are they all Muslim?  Obviously not.  They range from nut jobs to cultists, to FARC and ACU, to the Tamil Tigers, to real honest to goodness terrorists.  I see two possible conclusions that you can arrive at from this list, either we are systematically discriminating against Muslims or those of Muslim descent,  or the majority of terrorists are Muslim or of Muslim descent.  You can peruse this at your leisure and formulate your own opinions.

Not All Muslims Are Terrorists

The vast majority of Muslims are good, honest, decent people, yet... the vast majority of terrorists appear to be Muslim.   We have a problem and Muslims have a problem.  The question yet to be answered is what we do about it. 
 

What the answer is not

I can't tell you what the answer is, but I can tell you what the answer is not.  It's not deportations, it's not indiscriminate violence, it's not a police state, it's not discrimination, and it's not sticking our heads in the sand and denying we, Muslim and Christian alike, have a problem with Islamic terrorism.

In the meantime...

Add two names to that list: Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev