I think you have the group of first-responders right, but I still think you're wrong on the main point. What pisses me off about these things (and you know I'm always the boring vanilla) is the lack of ability to put oneself in a different pair of shoes, so if someone popped up from the other side and couldn't do that, I'd be aggravated. Oh, some of us would try extra-hard to be polite for a minute, given that it would be a stranger (and there would be others immediately attacking them for the same reason), but then it would be over if the person refused to see sense.

I don't think every Christian's opinion is suspect, but I do think it's fair to hold us to the standards we claim are a core part of our very religion. The biggest reason I "argue so passionately" is that I want the same courtesy extended to me from the other side - I'm not willing to change my actions because I haven't seen that as often as I'd like.

That doesn't mean I'm not aware of the facts, and I do know there is danger that I am quite close to geographically. However, the biggest reason not to go for religious profiling is that it is impossible to do properly - take the attack on the Sikhs, for example.