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  1. cdward

    cdward said, 5 months ago

    Yeah, the wingnuts and Al Qaida aren’t that far apart in mentality.

  2. LLeRay

    LLeRayGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Perfect! They’re both out of touch with reality, so they both project their phobias on everyone else!

  3. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    ^ ditto the above comments, plural

  4. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    You could go along way with this analogy. al Qaeda are also right-wing conservatives, both they and their American cousins hate liberals, liberal democracy, and the Liberal Arts, both look to religion to guide their behaviour and to impose morals on society, both believe in hard-line foreign policy and relations, both love their guns…one could go on and on!

  5. charliekane

    charliekane said, 5 months ago

    Canuck, you may be on to something!

  6. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Canuck - also tend to be against women’s equality (Coulter makes jokes about revoking women’s right to vote), invade people’s privacy, etc…

  7. TrickyPickle

    TrickyPickle said, 5 months ago

    Women should have the right to vote, just not to drive ducks his wife’s shoe Just kidding! lol@the cartoon. Seriously though, I wonder what effect this new diplomacy will have. Zero on radical Islam, they’re not willing to listen, but what about the moderates? I’m interested to see how Obama’s tack works out.

  8. danielsangeo

    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    TrickyPickle: Well, since the moderates outnumber the radicals by several exponential orders of magnitude…

    However, in my experience, moderates don’t usually go after the radicals in their own religion….

    This should be interesting.

  9. cdward

    cdward said, 5 months ago

    TrickyPickle and danielsangeo, agreed. You can’t budge those who don’t want to play nice. But the moderates DO outnumber the radicals on both sides, and my experience with Islam is that moderates truly do want to have a constructive and peaceful relationship with their neighbors near and far. It is completely reasonable and appropriate for our president to reach out to them – despite what the extremists here or there say.