What is the reason for your love affair for Muslims? Why are you so defensive about them? Aside from their track record for being the chief producer of terrorism, they aren't doing so well in the human rights department either. Never mind their religious beliefs.

So why the cognative disonance? I can only think of two reasons.

1. You aren't really expressing what you consider the truth, you just look for any opportunity or excuse to disagree with me or distance yourself from my position.

2. You see the Muslim problem as a conservative problem, or an enemy of the establishment, or something like that - and you don't like the establishment or conservatives or America or whatever, and the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

Or maybe you think you appear enlightened by diminishing such an obvious problem?

We all agree there isn't a problem with every last individual Muslim, why can't you admit there is an institutional problem with Islam as a whole?

To answer your question about police brutality and corruption - hell yes that's a problem. Its an institutional problem. As you break it down to individual police departments and such, the problem becomes more focused. For police as a whole, the problem isn't big - I don't suspect every cop I see is corrupt or looking for an opportunity to beat me up. I don't believe there's a bomb belt in every Muslim's closet either.

There are enough cases of police brutality to be aware of the problem. Much more so with Muslims.