Reply #192: Actually, the

[billh58]

Ft. Hood incident has not been determined to be an act of "terrorism" as yet, and appears to be more in line with the mass murders at Columbine, and other acts of Americans "going postal."

The fact that "most terrorists are Muslim" is true, and unfortunate, but that is like saying that most acts of aggressive war are committed by Christian Western Nations. You could just as easily say that "most terrorists are Middle Easterners" who are incidentally Muslim, and still be correct. How is our conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan different from "terrorism" in the eyes of the Peoples of the Middle East? Our own government once called some of these same Muslim terrorists "freedom fighters" (and supported them militarily) when they were at war with our Cold War enemies.

I hear what you, and others, are saying, but ascribing the acts of a relative few to all of the members of the world's second largest religion is also nonsense. Blaming the whole of Islam for the actions of a handful of extremists is indeed a form of religious bigotry.

Having said that, I absolutely detest ALL deity-based organized religions, and blame them for the bulk of the world's problems since their inception.