"...What I found then, and see unfolding today in the wake of the attack in Libya, is a verbal war between those who think that religion, or Islam in particular, is the problem, and those who insist that there is no problem of violence in Islam or religion in general. Essentially, we have reductionist haters lining up against dangerous apologists. Aside from each being wrong, the only thing they share is their need of each other to fuel their respective approaches — approaches which leave us all in greater danger and some of us as their actual victims...."

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From Brad Hirschfield’s blog in the Washington Post’s "On Faith" Column — For God’s Sake