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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Radical Islamic terrorists and those who fund it remain a credible threat to America and a clear and present danger to democracy.

In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.

Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.