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I find it odd that some people here seem to equate my wanting to deprive them of being able to see something as being somehow more pompous, self-righteous, and almost laughable, than them wanting to allow people to see something.

I think you would get an even worse reaction if you started posting links to videos of executions. I don't entirely agree with you about the video being posted on this thread, it seems a minor thing to me, but you make a valid point and have not come accross as a self righteous bellend or an estate agent or anything like that. At some point though you'll have to stop replying because this place is full of last word freaks.

When people say that religion itself is the cause of this kind of violent, merciless fanaticism, I immediately think of Maoism, Stalinism, Nazism, the atrocities of the Spanish civil war, the English Defence league, French neo-fascism, the imprisonment and torture of Muslim Brotherhood members by the more secular government of Egypt etc etc. What perhaps sets Islamism apart from these is the way it spans continents and unites much larger groups of people. I would say that religion can make fanaticism more dangerous, but it does not cause it.