Yes, the US was a bull in a china shop in Iraq but they made sure to draw a line between the Muslim populations of the world and the people who planned and executed 9/11.

Compare this with the 1984 riots in India after Indira Gandhi was killed - thousands of Sikhs were killed because her assassins were Sikh. The rhetoric from the Congress party at the time was telling and chilling - when a great tree falls, the ground beneath will shake.

Then Gujarat during the Godhra carnage - thousands of muslims killed in response to Modi trying to "sweep" and "cleanse" the state.

Can you imagine how easy it would have been let Americans target fellow Muslim Americans given the availability of guns?

In fact, people have committed mass killings in gurdwaras in the US thinking they were aligned with al-Quaeda, so the blood lust was certainly there.