The Arab/Muslim world sat by and didn't band together to eliminate the biggest killer of Muslims since Tamerlane.....Saddam Hussein. In fact, deposing such a homicidal tyrant now earns one the title of "Nazi" (from those with no sense of irony or grasp of history to know Baathism was patterned in large part on National Socialism). Immediately after the Iraqi army's destruction, the journalistic focus became about how the ease with which it was defeated embarrassed the rest of Arab world. This loss of face in "the Arab street" became more important than a genocidal dictator being removed from power, and the press simply fed that notion.
So it's foolish to think there will be any serious, concentrated attempt from that same quarter to squelch Islmamic fanaticism that kills far fewer Muslims than Saddam, and more Westerners in the course of it's crusade. The insurgency in Iraq as well has more to do with "saving-face" and unchecked macho-stupidity that it does any coherent political aim. "Shoot an American, brag to your friends. Blow yourself up with a street full of Iraqi kids, your friends will say you went to heaven". Assigning deeper motivations or intelligence to such morons is a mistake.
Besides, as a twenty-something male it's far more fun to stay out all night with your friends packing AK's and building bombs than get up early, grab a broom and clean up rubble, or actually go to work.
Apologists such are yourself, AMX10, are more concerned with managing the image of Islam through deflection and whitewashing....asserting we're dealing with nothings more than crime or "criminals".....than idealogical extremists spawned within societal groups obsessed with it's fundamentalism and death, and acting on that obsession.
Listening to you, you'd think that mosques were going up in flames and Muslims hung from every street corner lampost by vigilante groups running wild. If the Western media was the anti-Muslim propoganda machine you'd like everyone to believe it is...controlling everyone's thoughts....then they would be. Last time I checked, that wasn't happening.
And if Guantanamo were a Nazi concentration camp, they would have gassed or machine-gunned everyone held there within the first few days or weeks.