The US and Islam

On 9/11/2001 a small band of zealots murdered thousands of innocent people. They had been brainwashed into believing that the US was hostile to Islam, and attacked symbols of American power as part of a coordinated response.

Today many Americans are willing to discard our constitutional freedoms of speech, religion, and private property just to prove these murderers right, and help recruit the next generation of terrorists. 

These Americans have also been brainwashed by hateful, manipulative people.  It's clear that many of our fellow citizens have lost the ability to discern when they are being manipulated.  They spend hours every day sucking up the bile served by people like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, and their evil kind, and—with the hateful poison coursing through their systems—parrot back the opinions they have been taught.  All capacity for independent thought has been surrendered to these cult leaders.

We were not attacked by Islam, any more than the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was attacked by Christianity.  An Islamic Cultural Center four blocks distant from the scene of the crime is no less appropriate than a Christian church or a YMCA would be a half-mile from the site of the Federal building in Oklahoma City. 

There is a craziness along the fringe of all religions; this type of intolerance is both a manifestation of it, as well as the fertile soil in which it thrives.