Tiny minority of extremists update. Dr. Bernard Haykel is a professor of Islamic Studies at New York University. In a mostly pointless New York Times story (thanks to rgans) about discussions over the meaning of jihad at the [1] Al-Moayad trial, "[2] Defense in Terror Trial Paints a Rosier Picture of 'Jihad,'" he says this:

"There are a billion plus Muslims in the Arab world, 90 percent of whom support Hamas," he testified. "If they were all terrorists, we would be in dire trouble."

No, Dr. Haykel, they are not all terrorists. But if they support Hamas, they are terrorist sympathizers, and in many cases, terrorism enablers. This underscores the fact that I have long stressed: that the jihad ideology as espoused by Hamas is not a "hijacking" or "twisting" of Islam, but is rooted in its core teachings and central texts. Or I suppose the whitewashers would have us believe that 90% of Muslims worldwide have gotten their religion wrong.