The problem with muslims...

[Anymouse]

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And yet, don't you think it silly that you feel threatened by woman wearing a particular piece of cloth? (Granted, a burqa is a -big- piece of cloth, but cloth nonetheless.) She is dressed "differently," and you have an involuntary shiver as if every woman in a burqa is a terroist? Like every Irish is a drunkard, every Pole is stupid, every Mexican is lazy or a drug-dealer? That anything that is not "of your culture" prompts a reaction of fear, and the desire to wipe it out?
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I did say it was an involuntary reaction. I think its that they are so out of place.
I also know that most women in burqas are either brain washed or oppressed, but just occasionally some go boom.

True, you did say it was involuntary (cultural conditioning).

As I don't often point out (because it gets me a lot of guff here), if you count all the people killed on 9/11, that adds up to less than all the people killed here every month of drunk-drive accidents (or all servicemen killed in Vietnam from here every year). That most of our terrorism here (Timothy McVeigh, Jared Loughner, abortion clinic bombers, doctor shooters), are culturally born-and-bred Americans. They don't wear burqas and turbans, they wear tee-shirts and jeans and drive Ford and Chevy trucks and cars.

But they are scared of burqas, not gun-totting gun nuts at political rallies. They want scanners at airports but do not want to regulate terrorists like the Right-to-Lifers, Jack Daniels and Ingram or Colt.

I am scared of people like Michelle Bachmann, currently the Republican front-runner according to a recent poll in the Des Moines Register for president, who support such people and have about as good a grasp of history as Sarah Palin.