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According to the FBI, there are now at least two million so-called radical right-wingers in the USA. Some are quite violent, killing abortion doctors, not to mention the Oklahoma City bombing. To me, this shows that the same anti-[[liberal]], violent attitude also grows in our own civilisation. I see that as proof that this [[terrorism]] is an aspect of our [[time]]. We cannot link it to a particular civilisation.
There is [[nothing]] inherently intolerant [[about]] [[Islam]]. We must rather ask why this terrorist aspect of Islam arises now. The tension between [[tolerance]] and fundamentalist [[violence]] is within a civilisation.
Take [[another]] example: on CNN we saw President [[Bush]] [[present]] a [[letter]] of a seven-year-old [[girl]] whose [[father]] is a pilot and now around Afghanistan. In [[The Letter|the letter ]] she said that she [[loves]] her father, but if her country [[needs]] his [[death]], she is ready to give her father for her country. President Bush described this as American patriotism. Now, do a simple [[mental]] experiment — imagine the same [[event]] with an Afghan girl saying that. We would immediately say: 'What [[cynicism]], what [[fundamentalism]], what manipulation of small [[children]].' So there is already something in our [[perception]]. But what shocks us in others we ourselves also do in a way.
<ref>The One Measure of [[True]] [[Love]] Is: You Can Insult the [[Other]]</ref>
