You can fight it with education, open debate, and ostracism.

I know several Muslims too, they're good people, just misguided by ideology.

Ask your moderate Muslims friends whether they would support laws making it illegal to make fun of their imaginary friends, and you'll see what I mean with the non-aggression principle.

In many cases they are  simply repeating what they were told as children, and not giving much thought to the implications of such views.

As long as Islam is above criticism, they won't change their minds any time soon.

I was disappointed by President Obama's speech, when he kept stressing that this isn't a fight against Islam.

But if we are all honest, this is a fight against Islam. In essence, Islam, even in its most moderate form is a totalitarian ideology.  Islam is an ideology that does not believe in the non-aggression principle. Osama Ben Ladin used that very notion to justify his actions.

When it's perfectly acceptable for an American President to talk about a fighting Communism, fighting Nazism, fighting <insert totalitarian ideology>, why is it unacceptable to talk about fighting Islam? What, just because Islam labels itself "religion" it's exempt form critical analysis? What utter bullshit.

And before anyone here calls me a racist, hateful, or intolerant, remember that religion is a CHOICE and and race or place of birth aren't.

Of course I would always condemn initiation of violence against a Muslim just because of their beliefs. Everybody is free to believe what they want to.  But that doesn't mean that I won't decry and ridicule the mind virus that is Islam (and all other Abrahamic religions for that matter) at any opportunity.

Islam (the ideology itself, not the ethnic groups who follow it) is one of the biggest threats to the world.  We ain't seen nothing yet.