There is no equivalency between the Patriot Act and what Putin is doing, one is to the other what cannibalism is to Sushi. And it's not so much that I believe about a "moral equivalence" between Islam and Christianity, but rather how each is practiced by individuals.
I don't like the way that Muslim extremists practice Islam, yet I have no problem with the way Islam is practiced by non-extremists. I have Muslim neighbors, have worked with Muslims in the past, and there are hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world who have never committed an act of terror, so I have no problem with them, nor with the way they practice their religion.
In other words, practice whatever you want, but don't kill me as a result of it.
Are you now going to "correct" my beliefs?
Right. And unfortunately, a large number of them work in fundraising or teaching, or just supporting terrorism in other ways - editing snuff films, perhaps. There are some innocents to be sure, but not in the huge numbers you seem to be claiming.
I live in terrorist heaven and I have talked with muslims here.
Luis, another words, you have utterly marred judgement. I'm sure you've had this argument ad nauseum on this forum, but the behavior at the Beslam school is hardly an aberration in Muslim world.
This is similar to what is wrong with the Europeans. By not being able to psychologically reconcile themselves to the unpleasant truths of Islam they lash out and blame Israel and the US.
If you cannot get it together--still--on this basic, defining point, you're lost and all your assumptions formed
without this understanding are denial-of-reality intellectual failings.
The Russians no more need a terrorist state in their midst than do the Isrealis. We need to let them do whatever they deem fit no matter how heavy-handed it may seem by our standards.