This is really disturbing. Combined with this http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_seeks_to_institutionalize_war_powers_0830.html it is enough to get me seriously worried about what might happen in November.

This argument about the "will of the people" is rather blatantly stupid. The vast majority of voters in my native state of Oklahoma and elsewhere in the South overwhelmingly supported racial segregation. So much so that I attended segregated schools for six years, until the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, despite the Brown decision. Many people in the South probably still support segregation. Are these people also arguing that all of the civil rights decisions are invalid as well?

As you point out violent, fanatical, fundamentalist groups are not the exclusive domain of Islam. There are als substantial groups in Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. In the past there were even similar groups in Buddhism (and some current Japanese groups may be moving that way).

In America, the greatest threat actually comes from radical Christianist groups. They are responsible for the Murrah Office Building bombing, the Atlanta Olympics bombing, attacks on and assassinations of abortion providers, assassinations of progressive public figures, raids on National Guard armories, bank and armored car robberies, and many other incidents over the last 30 years. This only lists their successfull actions. Over a dozen plots have also been foiled by law enforcement in the last few years. Their activitiesare well documented by Dave Neiwert at Orcinus and the Southrn Poverty Law Center.