I think this is a very good article, from today's Washington Post.
( Sorry about the lack of attribution:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2007/12/ayaan_hirsi_ali_and_muslim_dir.html )

I have waited too long to hear this and I hope that others join in in taking back their religion.

Until the mainstream of Islam try to control their own extremists, there can only be a state of war between them ( the extremists) and the non-Islamic world.


Same goes for other religious extremists, of course. ALL of them.