re: #53 Locker

I think you emphasized my point as it’s about “market share”. They can’t get away with it here so they don’t… but we’ve got dead abortion doctors and home grown terrorists trying and sometimes succeeding in blowing shit up.

The language is extremely similar with vile hate, lies and xenophobia right out there in the public eye. No shame, no fear. Seems a pretty obvious pattern.

My point is that in Libya or Egypt, a sample of civilians who just happen to be at an incident will include a large fraction who sympathize with the extremist. In America, no would-be assassin of abortion doctors can go out on the street and invite random passers-by to join him, and find himself at the head of a parade.

We are agreed that it’s about market share. But you are mistaken about the size of the market share enjoyed by American religious extremists.