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To: DMaA who wrote (188634)	12/5/2006 11:23:38 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

I would be interested in seeing data on what proportion of the various groups--Muslims, Christians, and seculars--are "ists." There have been some surveys indicating that a large plurality if not a majority of Muslims are Islamicists. Just from my own observation, I would think that only a small contingent of American Christians and seculars are "ists." They would include folks who are inherently cranky or domineering or authoritarian or threatened by differences. Ordinary Christians and seculars can easily respond in an "isty" fashion if provoked but most Americans are basically live-and-let-live. I suspect most of the noise comes from attention-grabbing populist agitators. As for "the guy who coined it," he has a lot at stake and he's angry at those who would marginalize him. I expect that, absent that provocation, deep down he's a live-and-let-live sort of fellow. But I don't read him enough to be sure.