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Comment author: TimS 08 June 2012 02:36:24PM 0 points [-]

What sort of fanatics do you mean? Most fanatics that I'm familiar with think that the equivalent virtue in service of a different ideology is not analogous simply because it is in service of the opposing ideology.

Crusaders didn't tend to say that jihadists were like them, only Muslim. Only we who use the outside view can see the parallel.