zen_tom

RangerDick, I don't see any groupthink policy here, just one person being rude. But if there is a common standard of behaviour, and you don't like it, just go somewhere else - it's not difficult.

Anyways, I think you've missed an interesting aspect of host's post - he makes the point that here is a popular religious leader, publicly calling for the assassination, by the government, of the leader of a sovereign nation. I remember seeing a post in here a few weeks back that was calling for the West to militarily move in on foreign religious leaders because they were daring to complain about Western foreign policy - and here we have a prominent American doing exactly the same thing with apparent impunity.

If nothing else, it suggests that much of the fine moralising and high-grounding used as justification for the state-sponsored killing of large numbers of foreigners are no more than cynical techniques used to gain public support.