LH, there is a crack in the logic of your post (with which I mostly agree). You used a one-to-one correlation, when the truth is one-to-many: While lack of understanding something can be the cause of fear, it is not the only possible cause. There are plenty of other possibilities, including understanding well the object of fear. When you've seen someone proclaiming XXX beat someone in the streets for no reason, and then you see them coming at you, fear can be a very logical and plausible outcome too.

Yes, there may be some here whose fear is caused by lack of understanding - on both sides of the dispute. But I think this is a minority, if it exists. Many of us have seen the thing we are afraid of, in action. And not all of us would heed a call to violence except in defense (our own or of someone we value).

I understand where you are coming from, and know you from your postings to be a very reasonable person, one I'd like to meet one day. But there was a chink in the logic, as I explained, and in the heat of the discussion some took it as a sign of an apologist for the fascists (which is the wrong reaction, too).

Deep breath, everyone, and count to ten. In Urdu. Or Swahili. Or Greek.