re: #12 CuriousLurker

Thanks for returning to and clarifying the main point in this.

This is a dead thread, so I’m late in posting this, but:

After 9/11, people were frightened, scared, didn’t know what was going on, didn’t know how entrenched the terrorist Islamists were (and it seemed as if they were firmly entrenched) and whether or not they would gain the upper hand.

In the ten years since then, it has become obvious (or should be obvious to anyone watching) that those folks have NOT gained the upper hand and in fact, have been marginalized; and that could not have happened ONLY through the efforts of western nations, there had to have been behind-the-scenes assistance from Muslim nations as well.

It was not an easy fight, I’m sure. At this point, I am sick to death of manufactured controversies about things Islamic - there is no need for it, other than for some folks to make themselves appear as if they have some sort of continuing relevance. As a nation, we should be tolerant - and each of us expects tolerance back. As I see it, that’s where things stand today; and we cannot continue to screech about made-up bogeymen.