[QUOTE]
says "never invite over your nonmuslim neighbor (note, I did not say Kaafir) for dinner".
[/QUOTE]
I thought that non Muslim and Kaffir was one and the same thing!
kuffar is a nonbeliever.
Technically, Christians and Jews are not Kuffar. they're people of the book. Although there is some disagreement over that regarding Christians.
Yet, whatever. There are so many evil people running around masked as "muslims" that I think we should take care of those before we worry about what a kuffar is.
Kuffar is derived from the arabic word Kuffarah. Literally speaking it means covered or can even mean sealed (some ayahs in the quran quote, that the hearts of the disbelievers are sealed/covered) . In Islamic context it refers to all those that do NOT have iman in Allah (swt) and Rasool(saw) as his messenger, day of judgement, qada wal qadr and angels etc. This includes todays Christains and Jews, and all the other athiests; everyone who is NOT muslim is Kaafir.
When Allah(swt) says Kul Yah Kafirun, he is referring to all those that are not muslm. So yes, non believer and kaafir are the same thing.
And in an attempt to bring back this post back to the original topic below are some excerpts from a book by David Frum ** and **Richard Perle
David Frum is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and author of several books, including The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush. Richard Perle is a member of the Defense Policy Board and a former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy.
Of course there is much more to do. We must begin by recognizing our enemy. For many reasons, our leaders have been reluctant to give this enemy a name. Yet it is a fact that of the thirty-six organizations that the Department of State designates as "foreign terrorist organizations," seventeen purport to act in the name of Islam and six more are predominantly Muslim in membership. The United States has no proper quarrel with Islam, but a radical strain within Islam has declared war on Americans. Even more ominously, this radical strain draws appreciable support from public opinion in much of the Arab and Muslim world, both Sunni and Shiite,
*The full force of public opinion should be deployed to persuade American Muslims to liberate their organizations from extremist influence. We urgently need an American Islam that feels at home on American soil, that is committed to American values and the defense of the American nation, and that may someday challenge Islamic extremism with the example of a democratic and pluralist Islam born in the USA. *
*Some of our most difficult problems in the war on terror involve our two-faced friends in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. *
*Opening the Middle East to trade and investment is one way to alter those facts; another is to raise the status of women. *
*The American alliance system must also be transformed. The United States must acknowledge that a closely integrated Europe has ceased to be an American interest, if it ever was one. It must face up to the fact that France has ceased to be a U.S. ally in any meaningful sense of the word and that the Russian government of President Vladimir Putin is playing some sinister double games. *
U.S. Born Muslim Here!
Greetings & Salutations! 
I too am a U.S. born Muslim, but I hesitate to to use the name “American” as it applies to everyone in the New World (North and South America), they too are “Americans!” I became a Muslim in 1965 when when I was 23 years old. I rejected the Judeo-Christians beliefs that were forced upon me and it was very challenging to be a Muslim in which Judeo-Christianity is intolerant to anyone except their own brand of faith. I have never wavered and have only grown stronger, however I do wish there were Muslim missionaries to proselytize here in the U.S.! Europe was ready for Islam and it is spreading there rapidly, we need an Islamic religous revival here too! Perhaps those U.S. citizens who embrace Islam will change the U.S. attitudes against other people in the world? Inshallah! Sarge Booker
Brother hhbooker
There are a lot of people working for spreading Islam and making it stronger in US. One example is the MCA community in the bay area. Its located in Santa Clara, CA. Please check out there web site: http://www.mca-sfba.org.