Yup, and it's soooooo rampant that we've had to deploy the military into the affected states to squash it.
All things have a beginning. The current Tea Party Lunacy started with one guy holding up a
niggar sign
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[quote="Ringel05, post: 4948201"]Come on, I gave you more credit then[[I][FONT="Arial Narrow"][SIZE="1"]sic[/SIZE][/FONT][/I]] this, the comparisons based on quantity and quality are so far fetched as to land that outlook in the realm of the ludicrous. This is not a denial that those happen, but to compare radical Christian fundamentalist actions in this country with the actions of a[I] vastly larger and more violent[/I] group of Islamic radicals who can and do incite huge numbers of believers to violence is beyond pale on many different levels.[/quote]
you are saying one cannot compare things because of[I] teh [/I]scale?[/QUOTE]
Scale is only a part but I figured you'd know that as there are many other cultural, economic and individual factors involved. As for everything has a beginning, sure it does but not everything grows exponentially out of that beginning, some don't find fertile ground and others start to grow but eventually wither on the vine. If it starts getting to the point where the radical fundamentalists incite Americans to start rioting in the streets and the majority start advocating violent overthrow and eradication of all non-believers then I'll agree with your assessment. Until then......... :duuno:[/QUOTE]
It doesn't necessarily follow that radical fundamentalism in America would contain a purely religious overtone. Within our system people do advocate violently without the extreme physicality we see in other nations, but I am sure we are no different in our emotions and nature than are others. We have a system that allows a venting of public frustration...a system some are advocating dismantling, without thinking through the inevitable repercussions that would surely follow.
Newt Gingrich is a case in point who used to brag that 'we are the radicals' and would do most anything to win including tearing apart the fabric of institutions that though flawed, kept the US from imitating the disfunction(s) other nations.
I could go on in detail, but few here care for serious in depth discussion on that level.
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