White supremacist religious-right fundamentalists claim the snowflake loony-left Islamic-apologists are crazy. Snowflake loony-left Islamic-apologists claim white supremacist religious-right fundamentalists are crazy.
Both groups use their hate-filled ideologies to quell free speech and prevent presentation of dissenting views in the public forum. Both groups use intimidation and violence to achieve their ideological views. Both groups are intolerant of American ideals of free speech, free thought, and individual liberty.
I do not desire to stop anyone from having their viewpoints, from their freedom to talk about their ideas, no matter how repugnant I believe them to be. Thinking about those ideas and saying those ideas does not constitute hate-thought or hate-speech that should be prosecuted by legal action. If you prosecute people for mere thoughts and speech, you're no better than Saudi Arabia, Iran, ISIS, Catholic Inquisitions, John Calvin, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and today's Russia, Salem witch-hunters, and the Westboro Baptist Church.
Actions are prosecutable. Those who commit crimes should be held accountable but not those who think and say what's on their mind.
Let's meet in the middle to agree they're both absurd, irrational, and spectacularly dangerous to humanity and the continuing struggle for freedom and peace.
Stephen Greenfield
Cleveland