Inky: You don't mind if I trouble you for the details on this, do you? That way your examples will be In Evidence.

Talk about about false---or here, unnecessary---dichotomies! Are you under the impression the above are mutually exclusive?

I never said the two were mutually exclusive, but that your assumption jumps to conclusions that have not been proven. You see a Muslim and assume this was done as some sort of religious jihad. I do not make the same assumption.

Muslims kill more Americans than Christians? No, Inky, Christians kill far more Americans every year than all other religions combined. It's not even close. That they don't say a particular prayer before committing these murders doesn't absolve their religious indoctrination, does it? Let's be realistic, if it turns out that Hasan didn't say "Allahu Akbar" before his rampage, you'll still call it a jihad, won't you? And as Acrophony points out, our invasion of the Middle East ought to be viewed (by you, anyway) as a Christian act. I mean, it's an act, and it was committed by Christians, therefore it's a Christian act, right? How many innocent noncombatants has that killed off? Hasan's outburst yesterday doesn't even scratch that surface...but, I suppose, being Muslims and all, none of them are really innocent noncombatants, are they?

And I want to point out that I don't view it this way, Inky. I offer Christians the same courtesy I offer Muslims. I don't blame Christianity for all the heinous acts carried out by its followers, even when they explicitly do things in the name of Jesus. Maybe I should. But I don't view all Christians as homogenous dogmatics. You do see all Muslims as homogenous dogmatics.

Incidentally, that's exactly how I see all Klansmen. If we killed every last one of them, I'd be tickled pink.