re: #441 Obdicut

Meh. I don’t agree with that. Terrorists choices of violence are their own, entirely.

I’d say he bears responsibility for making Muslim Americans feel unwanted and under attack, which is a shitty enough burden of blame.

Of course they (terrorists) make their own decisions, and bear responsibility for them.

However, making Muslim Americans feel alienated and unwelcome is exactly the mechanism by which some of them will be radicalized. As I said, actions have real effects, and some of those effects are on the behavior of other people. This naturally includes radicalization, and the terrorist acts which result from that alienation.