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no ustwo--you posted a sequence of quotes from famous dead guys whose ignorance about islam made you feel as though yours was legitimate. and you bit it from a far right blog that you did not cite.
what was surprising is that while the thread was twitching its way toward oblivion, an interesting discussion happened between hiredgun, dlishguy and seaver. so even here you can see that discussions between opposing political viewpoints concerning islam are possible without degenerating into the idiocy of the present one----where you now have arguments that i take to have been made seriously---though frankly have trouble imagining it possible--that "a percentage" of the world's muslim population "supports" this ridiculous construct you call "terrorism" therefore islam as a whole has some kind of proclivity toward violence.
here is this brilliant logic in another context: only people who drive cars have strapped a bomb to the undercarriage and driven into a building.
therefore everyone who drives a car may strap a bomb to the undercarriage and drive into a building.
to make this appear legitimate, the qualifier gets tossed in that a certain (arbitrary) percentage of car drivers support such actions.
the usual pattern from here would be to generate a whole series of meaningless generalizations about people who drive cars----all of which would be further qualified--sooner or later--with "i know a couple of car drivers and they are nice people.....they are not like the rest. therefore i have no particular problem with car drivers."
the argument now being tossed about with reference to islam is, if anything, even more stupid.
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