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Besides, we have enough extremism in our own country right now (Christian Evangelicalism, secular fundamentalism, political polarization, scientific dogmatism, etc.), which poses a much greater threat to our country than anything coming from abroad.
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While I agree in a way, I have to disagree in many. Firstly, I remember I think, and I may be wrong and if I am then forgive me but, back in the 70's early mid I believe, I saw a woman and her son on The Merv Giffin Show, that started an Atheist group, the very atheist group that took the lords prayer religion in school to the supreme court and had it removed. They are dead now, they disappeared for a very long time after they were in business for a long while and were kidnapped and shot then dumped in a state by a pond. This wasn't done by a Christian group or an extremist trying to shut them up. It was done by someone they had working in their office so he could steal the money they had. At any rate, the point of mentioning that story, it's not extemism here in this country that caused that to happen on the right side, just greed and the paranoia of those 2 that were on the left extreme side that put them in an isolated position that allowed it to happen as it did.
When you say that we have a much greater threat internally than anything abroad, I guess 9/11 was something that happened internally?? And yes there is a lot of extremism in this country much of it caused by those that have either originated from other cultures/countries or have been here but are attempting to grab hold of or change to a different culture and force it on this one, meaning they want America to change it's culture to conform to theirs. And a lot of the extremism and division in our country that is at such an alarming level is caused by the propaganda of the extremists. And when people in our own government embraces and enforces such propaganda then the problem becomes very sever but let us not forget where that propaganda truly originates from and that is abroad.