Your tone seems pretty strong.  Have you ever heard of Anwar al-Alwaki?  Do you ever read the New York Times?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;us&#x2F;nation-challenged-american-muslims-influential-american-muslims-temper-their.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;us&#x2F;nation-challenged-ameri...</a><p>&quot;Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, spiritual leader at the Dar al-Hijra mosque in Virginia, one of the nation&#x27;s largest, which draws about 3,000 worshipers for communal prayers each Friday, said: &#x27;&#x27;In the past we were oblivious. We didn&#x27;t really care much because we never expected things to happen. Now I think things are different. What we might have tolerated in the past, we won&#x27;t tolerate any more.&#x27;&#x27;<p>&#x27;&#x27;There were some statements that were inflammatory, and were considered just talk, but now we realize that talk can be taken seriously and acted upon in a violent radical way,&#x27;&#x27; said Mr. Al-Awlaki, who at 30 is held up as a new generation of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West: born in New Mexico to parents from Yemen, who studied Islam in Yemen and civil engineering at Colorado State University.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anwar_al-Awlaki" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anwar_al-Awlaki</a><p>A new generation!  Of course, as you would probably say, in 2001 al-Awlaki was a <i>good-Muslim</i> but by 2003 he had become a <i>bad-Muslim</i>.  You may also believe that you decide who is a Muslim, and the new al-Alwaki was not a Muslim at all...<p>The line between these categories seems pretty thin, however. For instance, the US taxpayer funds the Palestinian Authority, and one wing of the PA is the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which blows up buses and stuff.  Al-Aqsa is an &quot;unofficial&quot; arm of Fatah, however, and the PA is &quot;officially&quot; distinct from Fatah.  So while many on the far left endorse the PA, few on the far left endorse Al-Aqsa.<p><pre><code>  https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Al-Aqsa_Martyrs%27_Brigades
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Imagine if rightists got to let themselves be wilfully taken in by this transparent game of three-card monte.  Any fascist who didn&#x27;t send any Jews to Auschwitz, personally, himself, could claim to be totally in the clear. Perhaps the SS is just the &quot;armed wing&quot; of the Third Reich, etc, etc.  And if you&#x27;re Petain or Franco, you had nothing to do with that at all.  Etc, etc, etc.<p>[Edit: spacing.]