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Ah, yes, the “Christian Taliban” that is beheading those that disagree with it in broad daylight and broadcasting those beheadings to the rest of the world. Here’s a tip: if you want to be persuasive, try using a little less hyperbole. There may be a point to be made here about the influence of organized religion on U.S. laws, but you’re alienating even those who would be willing to listen to your point by drawing such an absurd equivalence.


https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9827886/abortion-clinic-attack...

"Since 1977 there have been eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, and 186 arsons targeted at abortion clinics and providers across the United States."

It's not on the same scale, but the faction clearly exists that would do it if they could get away with it.


...in 40 years. This is indistinguishable from random people being nutcases imo; you use the numbers to try and make them scarier than they are.


I see someone already put a link up, but extremism is extremism and the Christian extremism in the U.S. parallels Islamic extremism quite a bit. Including openly murdering those you disagree with.


This feels like "yeah, gang crime is kind of like the Holocaust -- people die".

There's really no similarity, and pretending otherwise is just trivializing the Taliban.


I would say it’s a numbers game. Islamic extremism has way more members.




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