"I could also scour the internet and pull up my sources just the same as Machine or anyone else to show that the vast majority of Muslims here are peaceful, patrotic, law-abiding Americans just trying to make it. "
Yet you will struggle to find a voice in the Muslim world that what the "extremist" are doing is wrong. The Muslim community sits by and allows it's people to propagate violence in the name of Allah. They then laugh at you when the door is closed for thinking them peaceful.