It's not bigotry-- it's laziness and inertia...

[TreasonousBastard]

that make it so easy to whip up frenzied crowds.

Muslims moving in? It would be hard work to change your lifestyle just a little to welcome them. It's work to understand their differences and find ways to get along. So much easier to just gather a mob and keep them out. Problem solved.

This is the way it's always been with every group that's moved in anywhere in history. Some get it worse than others, but it fighting an enemy is always easier than finding a friend.

Fighting gives you a winner and a loser with no doubt or regrets. Strength, honor, heroism-- all that good war stuff. Negotiating and peacemaking is for the weak.

The fundamental problem is that people suck because we haven't yet evolved into civilized beings.

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. That explains...

The "USA! USA! USA!" crap from those anti-mosque protesters.