The good is that they're a minority, much like wackos of other religions are a minority to actually have extremist tendencies, and a minority of a minority to actually act out their tendencies.
The bad is that it's really just like that.. I had friends I grew up with who, out of the blue in otherwise completely normal friendships, would say things like that:
"I mean imagine, if you took a girl home from a party late at night, and after you're [in bed] you turn the lights on - and it's your sister!! ... I'd kill her.. She'd have to die. [...]"
This guy was a totally normal guy, otherwise.. We both got the best grades in most classes, etc.. This wasn't something he would have naturaly thought up, it was bred into him. There's a lot of other anecdotes from other muslim friends I've had, mother-centric and equally weird (all of a sudden getting all stiff in the middle of dinner about his family and friends rising up with AK47s and taking control of Toronto like his father told him they could - this guy was Iranian, 13yo.. "Today Toronto and Canada, tomorrow the evil USA), but that's the gist of it everytime.
It's obsessive.
The ugly is how thick the wall between extremists and well-adjusted people is, especialy when they're from backgrounds as different as the inner USA and inner Islam. I could do nothing to change their minds. I couldn't even understand how they could put their faith before reason like that.. there was nothing to leverage them into even just entertaining a mode of thought other than their circular reasoning.
