The interesting thing about the San Bernandino shooting is that one of the victims got into a religious argument with the shooter in the days preceding the attack. He described the conversation as “calm and collected” to his wife.

However, his Facebook page is a minefield of all caps, calling anyone who disagrees with him anti-Semites, belittling and threatening Muslims, and spouting off all sorts of radical right-wing rhetoric.

To an extent, this seems to have been a workplace shooting. But it was also terrorism. These individuals were self-radicalized. But, since thousands of rounds of unused ammo and several pipe bombs were found at their home — I’d guess this holiday party wasn’t their intended target, until something or someone provoked them.

The problem is not Muslims. It’s not Islam. It’s religious intolerance on all sides. The Planned Parenthood shooter was just as self-radicalized as the shooters in San Bernandino — however, a lot of Americans do not see it that way. Western religion seems to think itself free from radicalization and fundamentalism. It is not.

The fact that fundamentalist Christianity is popular in the same circles as militias and gun idolization makes me worry that within my lifetime our nation could see the rise of terrorist cells like the ones Middle East is plagued by.

We are not immune to this, America. Humans are vain, corruptible, and obsessive creatures — not matter what religions. Lack of education and worldliness coupled with fear and propaganda can bring this fight to any nation, any community.

Christian fundamentalism has it’s highest rates in poor and rural communities. Wealth inequality meeting xenophobia and our nation’s love of firearms creates an environment ripe for the same type of warfare, but with a Christian face.

The Da’esh have the goal of bringing about the end of the world, and inspiring people of other religions to adopt fundamentalist beliefs in reaction to terrorism works perfectly with that plan.

The Da’esh supporting shooters in California might have went on to take on a larger target, they may not have. But, this violence did not have to happen to this community, to those victims. It’s not the fault of those people, even the man who seemingly provoked the shooters, but his own religious fundamentalism put him and his loved ones in an avoidable position. He did not deserve to be shot. He did not deserve to die. But we should look at his actions and realize that had he been more tolerant, this particular shooting might not have happened.

Religious fundamentalism is dangerous. We can’t really individually work to undo the broken sects of Islam. But we can stand up and say that religious fundamentalism and radicalization, of any faith, is unacceptable in our country. Free for any religion. Freedom from religion.

It blows my mind that Americans see a distinction between this shooting and the Planned Parenthood shooting. They are both radicalized religious shootings perpetrated by uneducated shooters inspired by propaganda.

The difference is, the instigators of the fundamentalist Islam propaganda are having the daylights bombed out of them and the instigators of the fundamentalist Christian propaganda are running for President.