The angelic ummah.

That [Andrew Sullivan Venn] diagram [purporting to demonstrate how bloodthirsty Muslim nut job killers are but a fly speck on the circle representing all Muslims in the world] reminded me of a counter-argument I saw in a recent comment somewhere. This was to the effect that virtually no one suggested [during WWII] that we were fighting a "tiny extremist minority" of Japanese Imperialists, or a minute faction of "extremist" Nazis who were unrepresentative of Japanese or Germans at large. When a whole polity is explicitly or tacitly supportive of its most severe political proponents there is no practical sense in trying to differentiate these "groups" from each other.^[1]

Muslims engage in terror, purport to pass sentence of death on mocking Westerners thousands of miles away, take school children hostage and kill them, behead passing Christian schoolgirls, riot in the streets when Egyptian Christians seeks to convert an existing building into a church, pull out the toenails of converts to Christianity, defile Christian churches and wipe themselves with pages from the Bible, defenestrate other Muslims who suggest that the Koran can be interpreted, inflict ghastly medieval punishments on criminals, subjugate women, enslave infidels, marry their cousins, wallow in obscurantism, flog themselves with knives and chains, dress their infant children in suicide bomber costumes, worship the AK and Semtex, systematically expel Christians and Jews from Muslim lands, dance in the streets when hijacked airliners are used to kill thousands of innocent Westerners, create impenetrable enclaves in Western lands, chivvy Western nations for shariah as a parallel legal system, imprison their servants, mutilate the genitals of their girls, engage in “honor” killings, and singlehandedly ramp up rates of violent crime in Western lands (including wholesale arson) but this, pilgrims, has not even a remote connection to Islam. No, Sir. None. Zip.

No. If there is a “Muslim problem” in the world it is those aberrant salafist, Muslim brotherhood, and al Qaida types who all together couldn’t fill up the main runway at Chicago O’Hare if they each wore a three-foot tutu. The rest of the ummah is simply the picture of mental health, adaptation to the modern world, tolerance of other views, and the desire to live peacefully with infidels anywhere they can be found.

I’m buyin’ it, friends. Yes, I am. It’s a complete mystery how people can make a gigantic mental leap and connect the actual words of the Koran with any of that stuff up above.

Notes
^[1] Hannon commenting on "The Western denial of the reality of Islam, taken to the max." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 10/18/10 (emphasis added).