Larry, I understand your concerns, and if I were the editor I probably would have insisted that this be written in a less provocative way. Regrettably, we have always had people who are intolerant of others, and have always had to deal with nut-cases also. But I did want to suggest that this might have been something less than the "call for violence against pacifists" that your initial post indicated.

I am one of those who dislikes taking anything I read or hear at face value, and likes to challenge assumptions (my own and others'). So I have a question for anyone who happens to be reading this: Do we have more intolerance of Muslims, and attacks on Muslims for their faith, in the US now than we did before September 11th? I know that many of us assume we do, but most of what I have heard is anecdotes rather than statistics. So I don't know if it's happening more now, or I'm just hearing more about it now. Does anyone know the answer to that?