[MineralMan]

"Ok..my point is you can ban or make illegal the past activities of the Klan but not the religion they stood for.
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Precisely. The Klan believes that blacks are subhuman and should be removed from this country, not allowed to marry outside their race, and not given the same freedoms real humans have. They have similar beliefs about Jews.

They can believe these things all they like. They can publish their hateful ideas, and they do. What they cannot do, with impunity, is break laws and violate the rights of US Citizens. If they do that, they go to prison.

But, hey, if they want to wear sheets and pointy hats and march around carrying signs, let 'em. These days, they have to have police protection when they do that. Ridicule has reduced the KKK to a cluster of buffoons today.

[silentreignofheroes]

These days, they have to have police protection when they do that. Ridicule has reduced the KKK to a cluster of buffoons today.

The K doesn't need Police protection..The Klan you see doesn't represent the Klan that is.

[Earthdweller]

There are some distinct differences in this comparison of the (past)Klan to the current Islamofascists. The Klan was planning on letting the country stay intact with the same religion. Yes they were a major threat to minorities but the Islamics want to completely change our infrastructure or religion along with all the minorities and the majorities included.

In addition, they won't have family members here telling them to STFU like our families would tell us if we were doing something really stupid. Ridicule will not have the same effect.

Laws will only go so far to protect the citizens against private jihads..just as in the old days of the Klan. That is why I say as a first measure we need to keep their numbers down on our shores somehow (legally).

[ClearBlueSky]

But, hey, if they want to wear sheets and pointy hats and march around carrying signs, let 'em. These days, they have to have police protection when they do that. Ridicule has reduced the KKK to a cluster of buffoons today.
So you support ridicule of Islam as a way to negate the hatred and violence it preaches? The cartoons are ok ? Laughing at people dressed like 12th century bedouins is ok? No?
Why not? Is not the woman/slave, draped in fabric, a symbol belief system that preaches the oppression and hatred of Jews and infidels, as is a Klan robe and pointy hat? Are they not advertising it and promoting it by wearing hijabs and hair/face coverings?
And what practices of Islam can we ban without threats of violence??
OH- and what do the Klan members do when cartoons mocking them are published? Any publishers in fear for their lives from the Klan?
Trying to compare the Klan to Islam is like comparing the neighborhood bully to Hitler.Both are evil and prejudiced, but one is limited in power- the other is not. The bully is a societal aberration,not condoned or encouraged. Islam is the Koran- and to the millions who follow it EVERY WORD is sacred-even the ones that order the killing of Jews and infidels.
But I'm glad to see that you think ridicule is a good weapon against backward people with violent beliefs. Wonder what would happen if people started pointing at, and laughing at, Muslims- just like they do Klansmen?