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McCain said:

The great strategic challenge facing the West—and, indeed, the civilized world—is extremist Islam

That may be. That's also the reason why "the West" (which might be a topos for US-America and its vassall states) has developed, and is developing, an extreme Islamophobia, which certainly will aggravate the extremism on "the other side", and so on and so forth.

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McCain said:

The great strategic challenge facing the West—and, indeed, the civilized world—is extremist Islam

This thing is reciprocal: The great strategic challenge facing the Muslim world—and, indeed, the civilized world—is extremist US-American imperialism.

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McCain said:

The great strategic challenge facing the West—and, indeed, the civilized world—is extremist Islam

That may be. That's also the reason why "the West" (which might be a topos for US-America and its vassall states) has developed, and is developing, an extreme Islamophobia, which certainly will aggravate the extremism on "the other side", and so on and so forth.

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McCain said:

The great strategic challenge facing the West—and, indeed, the civilized world—is extremist Islam

This thing is reciprocal: The great strategic challenge facing the Muslim world—and, indeed, the civilized world—is extremist US-American imperialism.

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Jay Tolson said:

It is hard to say that we as a nation—a government and a people—have gotten any closer to identifying, much less aiding, those voices of Islamic moderation that we hope will ultimately triumph.

That's indeed a demasking formulation! There is a US-American "we"; then there is a gap; and then there are the others, and Muslims belong to them, including the 1,500,000 Muslim citizens of the U.S.A.
I know some US-American Muslims and some German Muslims; all of them feel belonging respectively to the US-American or to the German society. Wordings as above redline them.