The Hard Truth About Islamic Fundamentalism

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32. Well, you have a good point.

But I live in a state with the highest Islamic population outside the Middle East. It is kind of ironic that the city which excluded Blacks for decades -- thank you Henry Ford and Orville Hubbard -- Dearborn, Michigan, has the highest proportion of Muslims in the Western Hemisphere, and likely the most mosques per capita.

Yet there are no terrorist attacks in Dearborn, or anywhere near Dearborn.

I say this as a lifelong atheist. It is not Islam that is the problem. It is fundamentalist religion, no matter which profit one worships. (IMHO, they are all false, but no matter.)

I despise religion. But I do not despise believers. At least to the extent that they do good. My main complaint with religion is not how they believe, but how they act. I know it is difficult to separate the two, but then there's Dearborn, Michigan, an Islamic city which is peaceful and tolerant. What more could anybody want?

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia continues their beheadings. Clearly this is not just about Islam who would kill for rendering their profit in a cartoon, or professed Christians who want gays to be put to death, or Jews who think God gave them some land.

Houston! We have a problem.

How does one solve the problem of fundamentalism? That is the problem.

My belief is that religion and government are a toxic mix. The extent that one puts them together is the extent that one gets utter insanity.