[Peace-discuss] Fundamentalism Kills

[C. G. Estabrook]

*Fundamentalism Kills
*Posted on Jul 26, 2011
By Chris Hedges

The gravest threat we face from [RETAIL, AS OPPOSED TO WHOLESALE -CGE] 
terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes 
not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular 
fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant 
Muslims and those defined as our internal enemies. The caricature and fear are 
spread as diligently by the Christian right as they are by atheists such as Sam 
Harris and Christopher Hitchens. Our religious and secular fundamentalists all 
peddle the same racist filth and intolerance that infected Breivik. This filth 
has poisoned and degraded our civil discourse. The looming economic and 
environmental collapse will provide sparks and tinder to transform this coarse 
language of fundamentalist hatred into, I fear, the murderous rampages 
experienced by Norway. I worry more about the Anders Breiviks than the Mohammed 
Attas...

Full article at 
<http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fundamentalism_kills_20110726/?ln>.
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