That has not stopped white Christian racist groups from claiming him.

My source has promised a cite better than the one I provided soon.

What I think many do is underestimate the role religion plays in the terrorist threat. I’m not saying that a Semtex belt (or anything else) is a part of the Islamic identity – that notion is patently absurd. What I’m saying is that there are elements of Islamic thought who would like it to be that way, and that there are more of them than we are willing to admit, and as I demonstrated, some of us are quite willing to deny for their own purposes.

If you want to do your own investigations on this, I recommend MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute. It’s a compilation of translated Mideast media reports looking at America.

One can say that two things are both bad without insisting that both are equally bad.

One can argue that Islamic fundamentalism is a greater source of violence, therefore deserves to be a top focus, or that Christian fundamentalism is right here in Kansas (see Timothy McVeigh) and we should clean up our own house.

Or we could figure out a way to walk and chew gum, taking on violent fundamentalism whatever the underlying creed, without assuming that doing so establishes an equivalence.

How deftly did I walk that line?

So you coming home for Thanksgiving?

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I had typed a bunch of stuff to post as a rebuttal, but as you and I found out, Neil, on so many occasions, our politics will always clash, and we will have to accept disagreement.

I still win, though.

Where I take offense: Comparing those who exercise their right to abortion, or perform abortions, to Islamic or Christian terrorists, in effect, condemns thirty million mothers and doctors as murderers. To condemn these folks as such requires believing that each fetus has a soul, and that destruction of this soul is murder. This is largely a Christian belief. Church and state are separate, and state decides who the murderers are.

What I’d meant to highlight is the dangerous degree of moral equivalence that has been brought to us by the confluence of identity politics and the “diversity” movement (the “group” uber alles) with the threat of terrorism — that causes such absurd statements as the one I noted to be uttered.

Furthermore, people claim abortion is a “woman’s right” and that it’s her body so she should be able to do with it what she pleases. Contrary to this argument, polls have shown that over 50% of abortion supporters are MALE. Why, if it is a woman’s right to her own body, are males the ones who support it more?

If abortion is “needed,” then it is by such a small group of people that does not warrant preventing parents from having a say if their under-18 daughter wants to have an abortion, nor does it warrant having the option available to virtually all people who just don’t want to have a kid, the latter of which account for an overwhelming majority of abortions in the country.