gtm,

You frame your comment in simple terms of moral judgment.  The better approach, arguably, is to ask whether (a) it is wise or accurate to characterize all the Muslim and Christian peoples of the Middle East as of one fanatical, obscurantist, reactionary mind, or (b) useful for the West to cut itself off in opposition in the starkest terms from more than one billion people.

Arguably, to do so is not based on a true assessment of the Middle East nor is it wise or moral when viewed from a broader perspective.