Time for everybody to chill out

Submitted by Spar Krikorian (United States), Oct 17, 2006 at 14:24

The leap from a religiously based form of taxi discrimination to the wholesale islamization of America reminds me of the communist hysteria of the last century. While I have no doubt there are elements which are actively pursuing such revolutionary islamist goals for the United States, I am even more certain that an Islamist revolution within America is about as likely as the communist 'threat' before it, or any of the other mass-hysteria trigger points the far right loves to exploit in this country, like gay marriage to cite another cynically manipulative example.

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