[ellery]

I didn't hear anyone say we shouldn't condemn the entire religion of Christian Identity because of a few fanatics, but for some reason they are saying this of Islam

But that's not an apples-to-apples comparison. A truer comparison would be if people started condemning the entire Christian religion because of the Christian Identity whack-jobs. Islam, like any big religion, isn't a monolithic entity -- they have a ton of sects and schisms, and radical, militant Islam is just one of them (one that needs to be utterly destroyed, of course).

[Michael2001]

But they would have been justified in doing so if mainstream Christians had "condemned" Buford Furrow in a similar manner to the Christian Identity folk. The Christian Identity folk condmned the violence BUT Jews are this and Jews are that. The Islamists condemned 9/11 but said that Americans are this and that.

The only reason that people refuse to condemn Islam in the same way that they condemn Christian Identity, is that Islam has a billion followers and Christian Identity has maybe a couple of hundred.

I will agree that Turkey is a model that seems to work, although they are not nearly as successful as any Western country. But why do they feel a need to repress radical Islam there? We aren't forced to repress Christianity here, because Christianity in it's esssence is compatible with our (and Turkey's way of life); Islam really isn't