It's not about hate, it's about asking the hard questions to get the real answers, which offends some groups into making biased accusations of religious bigotry when those hard questions are asked. It's about making sure the freedoms are available for all, and I include Muslims in that "all." There's just a lot of examples of the "freedom for all" scenario not working out when Islam is invloved. Islam and the first amendment are diametrically opposed to each other (see Denmark below). As would be the second amendment in the case of a Muslim majority, because they would not allow an infidel like myself armed. Think Hitler, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot, to name a few, not necessarily all Muslim, but terroristic leaders who have taken freedoms away at the cost of human life. A form of Islam agreeable to the Constitution would be cool, but the rest of the Islamic world has not yet shown us this comprimise as a viable way of life.
It is one of the better kept secrets that the KKK was the official extremist wing of the democrat party in the 19th century. When post war reconstruction lessened in the 1880s, they got stronger. Like above, it's easy to kill those who don't agree with you when their rights have been taken away and they can't defend themselves.
The wiki article is interesting. Thanks for the facts 6-Shooter! Slightly off topic, but there's still a lot happening in Northern Ireland we don't hear about, but nowhere near the violence in and around the middle east. And Denmark, of all places. There still appears to be a lot of anger towards that cartoonist and the newspaper who did the Mohammed cartoon. I don't see the Muslim world standing up for the cartoonist's first amendment rights. Instead, threats and attempts were made to kill him, not to dissimilar from the opening story of this thread.
I have said this before and I will say it again. If the extremist Muslims, that approximate 10% figure (yes, only an approximate guess), which adds up to 150 million(!), are really not the majority of Muslim thinking, then we should all be suffering from hearing loss from the other 90% of Muslims who should be yelling from the rooftops that the 10% are wrong! But we don't hear this. I would make the case that they, too, would be fearing for their lives due to the lack of protection and rights from their governments, which is why I do not want to lose the government I have.
And I find it concerning that the 10% figure is about half of the entire United States population. Even at 5%, thats 75 million? If there are groups/cultures/countries that have significantly less than 5% crime/jail/violence rate, seriously, please let me know. Some groups have 20% that fall into this "bad-boy" category. Yikes!
I'm not looking to "slam" the other side here. I'm just looking to have an honest and respectable discussion without the mudslinging and name calling.