Although the U.S. faces a threat from extremists who have distorted Islam, McElroy said, "By linking the Muslim community to that threat in a discriminatory manner, we undermine our national security and dishonor our national heritage."
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McElroy's statement makes no sense. He acknowledges that extremists who have distorted Islam threaten the U.S. He then says we unfairly "link the Muslim community to that threat." But the extremists who "distort" Islam are Muslims, and kill in the name of Allah. It is unfair, McElroy says, to link THESE Muslims with the Muslim religion. Such idiocy would be salvageable IFF: 1) the Quran did not have passages that endorse precisely what the "extremists" do, or 2) there were such a hue and cry among peaceful Muslims against terrorists as to leave no mistake that modern Islam rejects the Quran on this subject.   Neither of these two conditions obtain.  Thus, McElroy is a naive, false prophet.