Health and Adams, please start all over. You are at each other’s necks, and you’re not even arguing about much, other than who thinks what about the other.
MikeHall, if you really feel embarrassed when asked about it, just tell the person to check out any Frum website to see what the attitude of Chareidim are. That’s all.
There are fools who, whenever Muslim Terrorism is brought up, will mention Timmothy McVeigh. This can sometimes stump the non-fool. He will answer, well this is more and that is less — or some other great, convincing answer. The main point is, that a crazy’s main motivation is his crazyness, while the terrorist’s motivation is mainstream Islam. There are very very few Muslim condemnations of terrorism.