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The point is this is just a few extremists and I find it disturbing my some of my former allies in the debates on whether Islamic extremists mean the entire ancient Islamic and Arab cultures is evil are so quick to embrace the mentality of their opponents in those discussions when it suits them.
When I said what I said, I was acknowledging the level of stupidity in the general public, and the tendency to polarize based on exactly what you just said. I, personally, obviously know that these extremists don't represent all pro-lifers (even though they claim to), but the vast majority who aren't as into politics as I am are going to make the issue black and white.
What the 9-11 terrorists did for Islam is what Tiller's murderer did for the pro-lifers: turn everyone else against them.