Mark² wrote:

Correction (See NOW below)

-And let's face it...regardless of what MAY have been an idealized,
originally less-violent belief system...has NOW (not "not") reached
a point where
millions advocate murder over cartoons, and the extermination of the
Jews in Israel.

Just because one's motive for murder is
religion...does not make it anything other than murder. These people
shouldn't be treated as zealots...they are
criminals...killers...murderers--and should be treated as such. If a
guy is chanting in the street that he wants you dead, and is
encouraging the real, active murder of another...they are accessories
in those murders, and should be arrested, tried, and if convicted,
imprisoned or worse.
The world has been sitting back on their cow-towing arses so long
that it takes cartoon-motivated murder and atomic weapons in the
hands of Iran before they even begin to open an eye-lid.

Sheesh.