On radicalism

Remember when Ariel Sharon set foot on the temple mount in Jerusalem a few years ago? The Muslims started a holy war (Intefadah) because the ground is sacred. In Afghanistan and Iraq, when troops have had to target mosques, they have been greatly criticized, because the buildings are sacred. Riots followed false accusations that a Koran had been flushed, because that book is sacred. Now people are being killed over some cartoons, because the image of Muhammed is sacred. Is there anything that is not sacred to Muslims? Oh yeah — human life! What was I thinking?

I use Muslims as an example, because frankly they volunteer themselves, but this type of thing has been done by self-righteous extremists forever. For the sake of religion, or political power, or racism, or pretty much any reason you want, all in the name of protecting what is sacred to whoever has the biggest weapon, the thing that God and God alone can endow is stolen away. It's crazy.