Casey Tompkins recently sent me this interesting public Memo to Bin Laden by Muqtedar Khan, a muslim professor in Adrian, Michigan. As seems common for American muslims, Khan is obviously a Democrat and quite negative about the Bush administration. Nevertheless, he expresses a strong, Jacksonian support for America and a deep revulsion for the Islamo-fascism. His best line: Let me tell you that I would rather live in America under Ashcroft and Bush at their worst than in any “Islamic state” established by ignorant, intolerant and murderous punks like you and Mulla Omar at their best.

I take exception to a lot of what he says. In the case of death and destruction, I would argue with him most strongly: when America goes to war, fewer civilians usually die as a result of our interventions than if we did not intervene. That's almost certainly going to be true in Iraq, as it was in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, and most other American wars of the last century.

The only thing that bothers me: why are American Muslims like Khan so invisible?