ABSTRACT
The total number of lives claimed by Muslim extremists in the United States has been relatively small, and most of the terrorists, after all, have been exposed, apprehended, tried, and convicted. When Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yassir Arafat started to lose influence to Hamas, the extremist Muslim fundamentalist organization in Israel, he began to see peace with Israel as a means of consolidating and renewing his power. A violent faction of Muslim fundamentalists has recently threatened to kill every mother, and daughter of Algerian government officials. The supporters of Muslim extremism do not constitute a majority of Islamic believers, but neither are they an insignificant number. The Muslim defeat was particularly painful because it seemed an unacceptable culmination to well over a thousand years of conflict between Christianity and Islam. In August 1995, Kennedy Airport in New York City received a threat from within the United States that, according to law enforcement officials, was probably associated with an Islamic group.
