No one is making excuses. In fact I am doing the opposite. I am finding fault with his religion and all religions. In fact I have been a louder and more adamant critic of Islam and all religions than anyone you have ever met.
I'm still torn. Let's say we quit letting Muslims in this country, and ban their religion, isn't that what the Jihadists want? Don't they win? On one hand it wouldn't hurt my feelings if I never saw another one again, on the other, a part of me thinks we give them what they want if that happens. I'll be glad when Obama is gone too, it's still not enough to make we want a Ted Cruz or Chris Christie though.
What they want is to destroy America. I really don't give two shits how many we offend. Fuck em. Their feelings can't be hurt if they are dead.
In America we don't ban religions. That's fundamental to everything we ever stood for and I would personally be pleased to kill politicians that wanted to ban a religion. We also can't quit letting Muslims in, that's absurd. However, we certainly could be more eager to allow Chinese immigrants, and less eager to allow Yemenis. Even that I don't like much, but, Yunno, we trying to stay safe up in here. And I prefer Asians anyways. What we need is what i mentioned earlier. Absolute reverence for free speech, a lack of fear about being critical of religion, a lack of fear about accusations of racism, an assertion that western values are superior and will not be compromised, and the ending of taboos against criticism of primitive people and ideas. Basically we need to vote for bill maher.