Originally Posted by Gadgetory

Actually the attack is on an idealogy which is the same as throwing a stink bomb because the stink bomb is also an attack on an idealoogy . Just because one makes more damage doesn't mean the other is any less a threat to our freedom. Neither are justfied no matter the result.

Feeling the need to "protect our freedom" from all these supposed religious fanatics running around everywhere is, ironically, probably one of the greatest threats to our freedom. The tosser of a stink bomb should be punished accordingly -- probably with a fine and a little jail time.

All fundamentalists are crazy nutjobs and they all use the same rhetoric to gain a political (as opposed to spiritual) advantage..our belief and way of life is being attacked blah blah blah...its the same crap..what we don't understand and its the same thing we didn't understand about Japanese suicide bombers in WWII is the complete lack of respect for human life. But I also don't get why threatening to kill an abortion clinic worker is any less ..it too shows a lack of respect for human life. But we somehow for whatever reason don't see them as the same.

Threatening to kill an abortion clinic worker is a person-on-person crime. A full-scale terrorist attack is an act of open war against the entire nation. There's a difference. Hence, they require different responses. Abortion shows a complete lack of regard for human life too, BTW. I don't agree with the extremists, but I think our society's flippant acceptance of it is rather despicable.

In this country we need to question fundamentalist objectives and stop the hey I respect your belief crap which means we end up not questioning their beliefs and what they want...we can question the effect their beliefs have on our society and we should. This is not attacking their belief but ensuring that everyones freedoms (such as they are ) are looked after.

Again, restricting freedom in the name of supposedly protecting freedom seem more than a little ironic to me. What are you suggesting? Having federal agents "question" everybody you would consider a fundamentalist? Do you want to start wire-tapping Campus Crusade for Christ meetings, for example?
If you're simply talking about "questioning belief," well, that takes place all the time everywhere anyway. You're just as free to say "that belief sucks" as a believer is to say "God knows best and I know God better than anybody else."
I think things are fine they way they more or less have been. Andbody is pretty much free to think and believe whatever the hell he or she wants to. But as the old saying goes.. that right to swing your fist ends where another's nose begins. Any negative physical action taken by anybody can and should be addressed through laws dealing with such things as harrasement, assault/battery and murder.

As for the Muslims extremists I don't know what the answer is but what we are currently doing does seem to be making the situation worse..