Right-wing extremist terrorism as deadly a threat as al Qaeda?

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4. Al Qaeda Can Just sit back and watch us implode

Right-wing extremism can be linked to Timothy McVeigh and now to this latest killer.

Al Qaeda doesn't need to waste time mounting attacks in the US. We do it to ourselves.

The RW religious fanatics in the US are just as dangerous and fanatical as the Taliban. Witness all the new laws in many states regulating contraception and women's health in general.

We find it easy to condemn the religious fanatics in the Middle East when they have the temerity to force women to cover themselves according to the precepts of their religion. However, here in the US we go out of our way to allow religious zealots to make laws requiring women to get invasive medical procedures like a trans-vaginal probe that are completely unnecessary. And now the esteemed Catholic Bishops who systemically hid child abuse and abusers worse than anything U Penn and Paterno could ever have conceived are suing to prevent women from getting contraception medicines.

I guess we're lining up along the "oh yea? well my religion is better than your religion" sort of school-yard arguments as public policy now.