The Fantasy World of NPR

It's been at least a month or two since I've had cause to pound my dashboard and utter a string of obscenities while listening to some bit of insulting pap on NPR but last night my driving serenity was once again disturbed by a piece on Religious Fundamentalism. The intro went something along the lines of,

"Since September 11th the danger of religious fundamentalism has become apparent for all to see. We will examine the history of this phenomena and interview three men who once described themselves as fundamentalists but have since renounced their views. One is a Muslim, one a Christian, and one a Jew."

Stop the freakin' madness!

I might have missed it but I don't seem to recall Christian fundamentalists driving airplanes into buildings in Cairo or Jewish fundamentalists strapping on bombs and blowing up university cafeterias in Riyadh. Why is it not possible for relativists like NPR to admit that it wasn't Christian or Jewish fanatics who killed 3000 people on September 11th( and continue to kill innocents almost daily in Israel) in the name of their religion, it was MUSLIM fanatics? This does not mean that every Muslim is evil nor does it mean that the religion itself is bad but it is an indication that something is definitely wrong with the way that Islam is being taught and interpreted by these Islamist groups. To try to equate the fundamentalist movements in all three religions with each other and present each as posing the same level of threat to modern society is dishonest and a bizarre form of wishful thinking. Just because you say it don't make it so.