None of them ever tried to take out American airliners or tried to target Americans in their own land. Most of them never targeted Americans anywhere else either. To equate any of these groups as an equal threat to the Islamofascist threat is disingenuous.
The Klan never "tried to target Americans in their own land"? Please. And who knows what the LTTE operatives arrested in New York last week were planning?
. To equate any of these groups as an equal threat to the Islamofascist threat is disingenuous.
It's disingenuous to say that I "equated these groups as an equal threat". You said that "almost every terrorist is a Muslim" and I provided you with the names of 7 well-known, non-Muslim terrorist groups.
Only because we weren't in their way. Remember Islamic terrorist groups basically targeted thier own governments until 79.
I would recomend Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674008774?v=glance
If for no other reason than it is a good history of the modern Islamist movement, and why they are and will continue to lose.
Try telling the British (our steadfast allies in the War on Terror) that the IRA bombings of the 1970s and 1980s were not terrorist acts because they did not target Americans "across the Pond". Try telling the Israelis that Hizbullah is not a terrorist group because their Katyushas were not fired at American airliners.
If you do tell them that, be sure you have on your running shoes.