re: #18 C1nnabar

This one sounds like a single nutcase acting alone, though. I wish there were some way of keeping flammable substances (like gasoline) away from such people.

This guy is undoubtedly batshit crazy, and also a lone nutter.

The problem, as I see it is that:

a. Lone nutters are being told that the problems of the world are the fault of Muslims, by a number of sources, and that tends to push them more in the direction of Muslims when they go off.

b. This guy is more than likely to be defended and have a little justifying back-story spun for him by some of those sources—Pam? Debbie? I’m looking at you.

c. My fear is that at some level of this, we start to go from demonizing, to having lone crazies act out the demonizing to have not-so-lone-not-so-crazy people vote and act on the fears being stoked.

Also, this nut could have killed someone, or burned down the building, but the nuts we will always have with us.