[lucysmom]

You see, muslims as an affiliated community deserve a bad rap. Just the way the Germans of Europe or the Japanese of Japan did in WWII. Because they as a community have not acted nearly as aggressively as they could to cast out radical haters within their ranks. Because far too many of them sympathize or actively aid and abet terrorists and their aims.

Their ills are institutional, not just owing to isolated individuals. Their ideological and theological tenets are a root cause of their inability to co-exist with others in peace. They require sharia and submission, jihad and dhimmitude.

So no. There is nothing wrong, and everything right with condemning Muslims, the millions of muslims who adhere to and intolerant, violent Islamist faith.

If you were Muslim, no doubt you would have a long list of wrongs justifing hatred of Americans.

[olderwiser]

If so, I would be deluded, as far too many of them are.

But now we come to it—America is no better than these Middle East potentates, these promulgators of Islam. Is that right? It all depends on who’s doing the looking?

[F.J. Mitchell]

The thing is, Lucysmom, we don’t hate anybody. We’re just not gullible enough to believe that any member of a sect driven by hate and sworn to our destruction, would do diddle to save one of us.

I smell useful idiots.