The vast majority of religiously-inspired terrorism and terrorism that was foiled/threatened in the United States is attributed to one religion. But, I'll give you a hint: It's not Islam.

The truth of the matter is, if we're really going to go down that path and alienate a group of people for their past actions in this country: Christian terrorism has been more of a threat to US lives than Islamic terrorism ever was. People with a prejudice against Muslims will cite the few threatened Muslim plots against the US (such as the planned attack on JFK airport or the attack on Fort Dix), but the truth of the matter is that foiled attacks from other groups (most notably Christians) passes largely unheard or unreported by the US media, at least in comparison to foiled Islamic plots.

For example, some of just the recent threats of Christian violence include the violent threats against a South Carolina library from Baptist wackos, an attempted church bombing in Texas, the planned murder at Falwell's funeral, and death threats against Colorado biologists.

And who here actually heard that six days before the whole Fort Dix plot (which the media had a field day with), there was a plot by five "anti-illegal immigration" militia men to machine gun Mexicans? I sure didn't, and if it was reported, it surely didn't get as much attention as the Fort Dix plot or the JFK airport plot.

In the US in just the past 30 years alone, there has been 41 bombings, 173 arsons, 91 attempted bombings or arsons, 619 bomb threats, 100 attacks with butyric acid ("stink bombs"), anthrax attack threats, assassinations, 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidences of assault or battery, and 3 kidnappings against abortion clinics and their operators alone; virtually all of which were religiously motivated by Christian extremists (National Abortion Federation). In total, 5,622 acts of violence or threatened violence.

I'd almost guarantee you that if there were that many threats and attacks by Muslim extremists against almost anything in the United States; we would be in Marshal Law.

I'm not trying to somehow exonerate Muslim extremists here, but I think the whole broad brush of terrorism as primarily Islamic (and some people's associations that Islamic means terrorism) is a bunch of alarmist baloney. If you really want to go down that slippery slope, Christian extremism is much more of a threat than Islamic terrorism. And the broad brush that we must somehow combat "terrorism" (which is really just a tactic) militarily, is just an excuse to erode our civil liberties. Terrorism is terrorism, and just like murder and robbery it's a law enforcement matter not a military matter.