Extremist hate and fear in our own people are the enemy, we are not enemies

the christian extremists among us are as dangerous terrorists as the islamic extremists among them
they want to convince everyone around them to fear, hate, and destroy the enemy as the only way to preserve oneself
they want the people who have no reason to kill each other to believe in fear and hate, and to fight a war just to prove that they are right
the people who hate and want to destroy islam are just as bad as the people who hate and want to destroy America

they say, those people hate us and don't want peace and only want to destroy our way of life and we have to destroy them before they destroy us.
the fear-spewing intolerant racists and religious self-righteous hypocrites that call for the destruction of the people who want to destroy us,
they want to turn peaceful tolerant people to be extremists like them, to become fearing vengeful hateful killers
they try to convince their own people that everyone on the other side is only interested in one thing, to destroy them

extremists on both sides polarize their own people into destroying the other at all costs at the expense of innocent civilians
they don't tolerate anyone who doesn't think their authority and dominance are God-given to them.
they are just mirror opposites of the enemy, no better than the people they want to destroy
they victimize only the weakest members of the other group, because they are cowards. and they use their own people to make war against the strong

a simple-minded country ultraconservative will tell you he is better than his enemy because he doesn't set off bombs and kill civilians
well his love of country ignores that his government trains and pays foreign terrorist groups to do that so he doesn't have to.
he will deny and fabricate justifications that it wasn't us, or they had to do it to stop a bad guy from doing far worse, or it was right for us to do it but when the enemy does it that's totally different.
his ego will latch onto any flattering explanation without a second thought, though he scours internet rumor and crackpot conspiracies tirelessly to expose the things he doesn't want to believe as lies
that the holocaust never happened, that the evils his own nature brought about are made-up stories spread by his enemies, his enemies were the ones behind it all

His mind only accepts simple, easy to understand, and feels-good-to-believe hypocrisy.
that God is on our side and the Devil is on theirs.

next time someone tells you, those people are our enemy and you have to destroy them, you look them straight in the eye and say
you are the enemy who is going to send me off to kill someone just like myself on their side, just because he was told to kill me by an enemy like you