Is it safe to be a moderate Muslim

I've now heard or seen it repeated a number of times that the reason we don't hear any condemnation of the terrorists from moderate or mainstream Muslims is that they're afraid of the thugs. I think that the only way we will be able to coexist with Islam is to destroy or tame those who who preach and practice violent jihad. The riots over every imagine insult, the threats, the beheadings and torture seem to be something that most of them are used to seeing in their own lands. As with the Nazis and the Japanese, defeating those who attack us and liberating the people in their homelands are one and the same thing. We cannot ignore this or we'll pay a heavier price in the future.