[CRedskinsRule]

FD, this is about building bridges not burning them. Yes there are Muslims who hate us, and there are Muslims who believe that all non-believers should be killed. Nothing we do or don't do is going to change that segment's beliefs en masse. HOWEVER, by not doing idiotic things, and showing the same type of compassion that the good samaritan (in Jesus' parable) showed, or that Martin Luther King Jr discussed in his I have a dream speech, or that the founders wrote in the pre-amble to our constitution, (the list goes on) we can live up to our own ideals. If we live up to our own ideals maybe we will give those who could be swayed either way - to radicalism or a non-radical life view- a stronger footing in peaceful divergence of religion.

Saying they started it at this point is a relatively shallow and immature way of dealing with complex, intense, religious devotions on either side of this problem.