The fundamentalist ANYTHING is fucking dangerous.
Ok.
But can you point to me on a map the countries that are based on a fundamentalist view of religion? Any religion? Tell me where on the globe there is some entire country, with borders and shit, that is based on some zealous fundamentalist sect of Christianity or Judiasm. Where its most radical tenets are baked into the law and where extremism dominates the culture? Here, the Branch Davidians are freaks. In the Middle East, their normal. Tell me I'm wrong.
Why can't you admit that there are countries founded on Islam, run their societies based on Islamic tenets, that want to keep everything as it was 700 fucking years ago? And why can't you admit that those countries are exporting their crazy to western countries who had figured out long ago a much better (western) way to live?
I just can't for the life of me understand the marriage between US left-wing liberals and followers and fans of Islam, what with all the crazy fucking biases and beliefs in the latter that clash most explicitly with those that have, heretofore, been the bedrock of western liberalism. Things like, for example, individual rights (women, gay people, etc.), freedom of expression, etc. I can remember when it was the dirty hippies at Berkeley who were yelling "free speech"; now your team is walking arm in arm with a group of people who think it's ok to resort to violence in response to being offended. Je fucking suis, Charlie.