When a major mass shooting occurs in this country, our far too cynical populace waits with bated breath to find out: was the shooter Christian or Muslim?


1. Both right-wing Christians and Muslim extremists claim to be strict adherents to their holy texts and both completely ignore the parts about love and acceptance while they cherry pick the parts that make them feel superior.

2. Both right-wing Christians and Muslim extremists believe that female sexuality is sinful, that women need to be virgins till marriage and that men are superior, that homosexuality is a perversion and theirs is the one and only true religion.

3. Both blame women when they are victims of rape. Both believe that women aren’t smart enough to make decisions about their bodies.

4. Increasingly, right-wing Christians, just like Islamic terrorists, feel that they need to take up their own arms, because their government isn’t representing their needs.

5. Both feel that talking is weak and that violence is the only language that enemies understand.

6. Both want their holy text to be the law of the land.

7. Both want people who they feel are sinful (generally the same people) to be marginalized or even killed.ll agree with points

8. Both feel that intellectualism leads to sinful thoughts.

9. Both are anti-science.

10. Both feel a profound sense of entitlement – that the world owes them their rightful place of superiority.

http://news.groopspeak.com/10-ways-right-wing-christians-and-muslim-extremists-are-exactly-the-same/

Of course not. On my very first line I wrote "(both great ideas)" re putting US interests first and keeping terrorists at bay. Trump seems, for want of a better word, "paranoid" about terrorism, and we ALL have damn good reason to be. I guess the question is - if the "West" hadn't meddled in Iraq (who instigated that?), might the whole terrorist threat be hugely less impactful on the world, if at all? In other words, how complicit are we in having created the problem in the first place and would we not have been better off letting them simply kill each other, as they have been for thousands of years, and kept the hell out of it. I suspect the "West" might be a bloody lot better off if we had!