Every informed person knows all of this is absolutely true. Now if you allow the mainstream media to tell you how to think, that is a different matter.
The govt murdered Al Awaki -- and his son in a separate instance a few weeks later -- for the crime of posting opinions they did not care for. They of course called this material support for terrorism. But that is what happened.
There have been a few dozen incidents of FBI informers duping young naïve Muslims and also black guys in a few cases into fake acts of terror and then busted them.
Bloomberg's NYPD was spying on Muslims in their mosques without court okay not only in NYC, but even outside of the USA.
The fact you are ignorant of these things does not mean you are "rational". It means you are misinformed