WHY do American Muslims have to "grapple" with "homegrown jihad"?

[ck4829]

The scene is becoming too familiar: A young man is arrested for intending to harm innocent people. He may proclaim he's an Islamic soldier, he may say he wants to be a martyr, or he may have planned a trip overseas with the apparent intent of shooting at American soldiers.

Such descriptions jibe with a number of recent arrests: of Faisal Shahzad, the failed Times Square bomber from Connecticut who pleaded guilty June 21; of the five American men from Virginia who have been sentenced in Pakistan to 10 years in prison for conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks; and of Najibullah Zazi, the former airport shuttle-bus driver from Colorado who pleaded guilty to involvement in a bomb plot against the New York subway system – a plot that apparently had the involvement of a high-level Al Qaeda operative.

Are these simply anomalies, bad apples within the greater law-abiding Muslim population in the United States? Or do they indicate that something more sinister needs to be confronted within this population so that the idea of killing innocent people does not become a misguided act of martyrdom?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/312623

But when a guy walks into a church and kills people because they're too liberal, or when people hurt themselves and send death threats to their friends and say liberals did it, or when a militia that is partially motivated by a chain email that says Obama is resettling Hamas guys here in the US plans to go on a cop killing spree, or when a guy opens fire in the US Holocaust Museum, or when a guy goes on a rape and killing spree because Obama became President, or when a guy walks into a Church and shoots an abortion doctor do death, etc.; they're ALL just lone nuts who were motivated by mental illness, and not ideology, so stop worrying about it, shut up, and move on.

When do the pro-lifers have to grapple with their ideas?
When do the freepers and right wingers have to grapple with their ideas?
When do the people Fox News and the rest of the 'liberal' media have to grapple with their ideas?

What about the fear and hatred that these guys promote? When do we get to talk about that?

[Xenotime]

1. Never. The RW media shields them and allows thier machine to continue.

[dmallind]

2. The real question is why DON'T American Xians have to grapple with theocratic terrorism

Allowing people to pretend they are killing in your name without saying "woah hold on - speak for yourself pally" is pretty stupid at best, so I have no problem with the expectation that mainstream Muslims should speak out. I just wish mainstream Christians were both expected to do so and were more willing to do so as well.