So why Canada? Because it is not an Islamic state.

But the drive for an Islamic state is probably not enough of a salient motivator for foot soldiers, as it is still a somewhat intellectual ideal. Hence the slanders. Telling young Muslims that their non-Muslim neighbors are going halfway around the world to rape Muslim women strikes a raw nerve.

Believing that members of the Ummah (the world body of Muslims) need to be defended makes someone far more susceptible to messages that violence should be waged in the name of Islam.

How many Imam Jamals are there in the U.S.? How many imams are brainwashing their followers with vicious lies about their fellow Americans? How many American Muslims believe that their Jewish and Christians neighbors—and not jihadists—are the ones responsible for the mass murder of innocent Iraqis? How many believe that Israeli soldiers slaughter Palestinian women and children for sport—and that the U.S. openly supports it?

The answer to all of the above is: At least some. We know this from the public record, particularly information stemming from various terror arrests.

Here is the more pertinent question: Who is actually fighting the propaganda? Who is combating the spread of radical Islam?

Law enforcement can intervene to thwart planned violence, but what can it do about hate speech? Not much. Even fire-breathing imams enjoy Constitutional protections. They don’t, however, enjoy freedom from condemnation. Their followers are free to run them out of town for spewing venom and demonizing non-Muslims.

Thus the most important question of all is not how many Imam Jamals there are here in the U.S., but rather, how many American Muslims will take a stand against indoctrination that pushes kids in the direction—if not into the arms—of terrorists?