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Look up the meaning of the burning cross and you will rethink your statement. Its unfair to label a religion base on a radical segment. This is why many people are turning away from the church. The segment that spews hateful rhetoric gets all the publicity. The Islam religion has over 2.2 billion followers world wide and yet Americans believe they want to kill Americans.
No, I probably won't rethink it. Some groups claim all kinds of connections and justifications for what is unmitigated hate. Recognizing the true nature of such groups is fundamental. Radical Islam is the defining principle behind all such terrorist groups. Christianity is not the defining element of the KKK. Racial hatred is. The KKK would use any set of beliefs they think would gain them support for the specific hatred they spew. Radical Islam is fixated on a specific, rigid set of beliefs founded in specific sections of the Koran most Muslims don't recognize as definitive of Islam at all.