"But before we get all worked up about how many mosque-going Americans are receiving coded messages from Osama bin Laden's cave, it's worth recalling other religiously-inspired murders and thinking about why we get so much more worked up when it's a Muslim who pulls the trigger." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"For instance, Scott Roeder, charged with the 31 May murder of Kansas doctor George Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, has reportedly suffered from mental illness and has been tied to radical Christian extremists, including the Army of God, which hails him as a hero on its website. (The site includes photographs so repulsive that I refuse to link there.)" - Steven Perez

"On 10 June, James von Brunn walked into the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and opened fire, killing a security guard and being taken into custody before he could carry out the wholesale slaughter he had evidently planned. I don't know whether he was motivated by religion, but he certainly was motivated by hatred of one – Judaism – and, as with Roeder, was plugged into a supportive network of fellow extremists." - Steven Perez

"Among the most notorious instances of religiously inspired violence took place in 1994, just outside Boston, where I live and work. A troubled young Catholic named John Salvi walked into two women's health clinics where abortions were performed. He murdered two women and injured five others." - Steven Perez

"But the focus of that inquiry ought to be on when the authorities first learned of Hasan's dangerous behaviour and why they didn't act on that knowledge. If, instead, Lieberman and his allies push for an investigation into, say, extremist Muslim rhetoric on the internet, there will be no end to it. Let me help them out. Yes, it's there, and mentally ill Muslims are going to latch onto it, just as the mentally ill everywhere can find religiously inspired solace and support for their own demented – and occasionally deadly – beliefs." - Steven Perez

Yeah, wingnuts; you might want the check yourselves on that whole "religious terrorist" stuff, especially since you've got your own whackadoos shooting up clinics and churches. - Steven Perez

The Army of God website is truly vile -- and yes, they declare Scott Roeder (among others) heroes for their murders. They advocate terrorism in the name of "god" -- but fail to recognize the parallels. Oh that must be because "their god" is the real one. *rolls eyes* - Prosey BUTTONS!