Fear pushes many over the edge

[kweerwolf]

From syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr.:

Which brings me to Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. He’s the fellow who was asked on an Orlando, Fla., radio show how the United States should respond if Muslim terrorists ever detonate a nuclear device in an American city. Tancredo said we should make it known that we would bomb Mecca, the holiest shrine of Islam. I took him to task in a column, calling him a yahoo and other choice epithets.

Many of you didn’t agree. To judge from my e-mail,roughly half the country considers bombing Mecca a fine means of retaliation.

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I mean, anybody who thinks fanaticism is a trait exclusive to Islam must not have heard of Eric Rudolph, the Christian terrorist who bombed the Atlanta Olympics, a gay nightclub and two abortion clinics. Some alleged Christians in rural North Carolina, where he is thought to have hidden for five years, consider this murderer a hero.

Fundamentalism is the enemy, then. It should be obvious, but fear makes you stupid. It makes you act without thinking.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/12278674.htm

[bemildred]

1. Indeed. "fear makes you stupid". nt

[htuttle]

2. "Fear is the mind killer"