“Stick to attacks based on people doing something.”

Oh, you mean marrying child brides?

Or perhaps you mean female genital mutilation? Little girls held down by their mothers and grandmothers and forceably castrated without anesthetic, their clitoris gouged out because some ancient cretin with a long beard demands it in the name of their barbaric religion.

How are we supposed to feel about people who hack off the heads of Christian school girls? Is that an attackable offense?

Or maybe we’re allowed to attack people who do honor killings and then defend them? Or who use gang rapes as sentencing mechanisms?

No? How about people whose religion commands them not to be friends with or touch other people who are not that same religion? Can we condemn them? At least look askance at them?

And, if you won’t let us despise people who follow a religion that torments, tortures, keeps in poverty and ignorance their fellow human beings, can we at least frown upon them because they hate puppies? I know that we’re not allowed to think there’s something abominable about them just because they killed 3,000 innocent Americans — let alone all the raping, pillaging, plundering and mutilation they do to each other across the world — but surely … puppies?!?