The continuum between nonviolent political Islam and the the jihadists

In the Wall Street Journal M. Zuhdi Jasser refers to the fact that the war between radical Islam and the West is fought on several levels: the violent Jihadists and "political Islam."  He refers to what Iman Rauf is doing is simply war via political means:

As an American Muslim, I look at that pit of devastation and contemplate the thousands of lives undone there within seconds. I pray for the ongoing strength to fight the fanatics who did this, and who continue their war against my country with both overt violence and covert strategies that aim to undo the very freedoms for which so many have fought and died.

Imam Rauf may not appear to the untrained eye to be an Islamist, but by making Ground Zero an Islamic rather than an American issue, and by failing to firmly condemn terrorist groups like Hamas, he shows his true allegiance.

Islamists in "moderate" disguise are still Islamists. In their own more subtle ways, the WTC mosque organizers end up serving the same aims of the separatist and supremacist wings of political Islam. In this epic struggle of the 21st century, we cannot afford to ignore the continuum between nonviolent political Islam and the militancy it ultimately fuels among the jihadists.

I think most Americans understand this which explains their resistance to building the Ground Zero Mosque.  I think even most Liberals understand this, but they don't like America enough to care.