A pox on ALL religion. By definition, religion is belief without reason, faith in the absence of empirical evidence.
There were those few who founded this country calling themselves "Deists" or were out and out non-belivers like Sam Adams. They were indeed Enlightened.
The curse of this century, and this world, are those who justify any action in the name of their make believe god, and call it righteous.
Line them up...and you can fill in the rest.
Frank

-You are correct about religion. However, to limit it to religion is ridiculously limited in vision. The truth is, most people believe things ("Global warming does/doesn't exist," "Monopolies are bad," "Matter must be either a particle or a wave") based on intuition and as little evidence or real thought as the religious.

All policy should be based on science. No one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property unless they commit a real crime, depriving another person of those same rights.

"Line them up...and you can fill in the rest."

Aparently one doesn't need a make believe god to condone violence in the name of righteousness.

Clarification:
"Line them up...and you can fill in the rest."
Just who would be lined up in an hypothetical scenario would depend on the level of unreasoning violence they had exhibited. Like the obscence excuse for a human being who opened fire on Jews in Seattle, or the excrement who beheads infidels in the name of his religion of death.
Sorry, but violence is what some nutcase religious wacko is going to get before he can snuff me, preferably at the receiving end of my short barrel 12 gage.
Frank

I guess I'll buy that. Although, I think putting a pox on all religion is painting with a too broad brush.

You dont see many killings in the name of Y_w_h.

If you re-read your post, you will se that you were at the ready - before all the facts were in - to somehow blame the media for this. Or at least blame the media for not inciting anti-Arab violence.

BTW: There's a Black church in a largely white neighborhood in Minneapolis. Residents (the white ones) are "nervous" about being attacked by Black people. Is the solution to the anxiety Black-hate?

Ray-What utter crap. You really think that a Saudi-funded madrassa in a Jewish neighborhood is the same as a black Christian church in a white neighborhood?

Ray-Also, while we may be racists, you have sex with dolphins.

Yeah. Try and reply to that almost meaningless, worthless statement that does nothing but attack the messenger's morality.

While I don't know anything about the "Black church in a largely white neighborhood in Minneapolis," I seriously doubt it's comparable to the Saudi madrassa. Was a Megan's Law sex offender living there? Were there code violations and an unlicensed school and unlicensed summer "retreats" run by people about whom the director admitted he knows nothing? Did they feature amplified outdoor events without permission? Did they advocate the destruction of Israel? Was the director of its parent organization deported for connections to terrorism?

I don't see what "Arabs," or "anti-Arab violence" have to do with this. The arrested man was a Pakistani, and Pakistanis are not Arabs. As to the Saudi madrassa, while it is run by Arabs, many of the congregants are American converts to Islam who are not of Arab descent.

The neighbors are worried not because anyone is an "Arab" -- or even a Muslim. They're worried (rightly, in my view) about anti-Semitic fanaticism.