[Mrs. Obelix]

So you're contrasting empty words about hanging American Muslims with 3000 deaths at the World Trade Center, riots and more killing at the Miss World pageant in Nigeria, the bombing of a club in Bali, the riots over Jerry Falwell's comments, the murder of missionaries in Lebanon and Yemen, and hundreds of other similar incidents? And then you have the gall to say that it's open season on Islam in America? More accurate would be: Muslims have declared open season on non-Muslims.

[Jhoffa_]

So you're contrasting empty words about hanging American Muslims with 3000 deaths at the World Trade Center...

If the people who made these statements would like to step up to the plate, apologize and admit they spoke in anger, and that these were just "empty words" then I will accept that at face value.

Till they do, I frankly have no reason to doubt that they meant exactly what they said.

Which makes their answer no better than the problem it's supposed to address, imo.