Define "normative."
Look, we can all go back & forth on this all day. The fact remains that there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who do not ascribe to violence.
We all should be on the same page w/ this one. Extremists? Of course - we need to identify them and go after them wherever they may be hiding or plotting. The problem w/ a lot of the rhetoric about "Islam" in general is that it feeds right into their agenda - they want us to view the entire religion that way, and marginalize all Muslims. And the problem when we start ratcheting up that rhetoric is that we see instances of bullying, vandalism & persecution rise domestically, as we have seen in the past year.
It's not right, and it's counterproductive.