I see a large contradiction in your post. You mention "moderate" muslims but then state "as long as Muslims look upon Muhammad as being a perfect human, the Qur'an as being a perfect book, and Islam as being 'the answer' - the Islamic world will always be one that is full of strife, and disasters like that we are seeing in Afghanistan will remain commonplace. "
Moderate Muslims by definition don't see Islam as, quote "the answer"
OP was stating that essentially extremist Muslims are Fascist first. If it wasn't Islam they would find something else to sure up their fascist beliefs. Surely if moderate Muslims exist then it isn't Islam that is the problem?