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Originally Posted by aceventura3
If they don't care, if you don't care - so be it. You've said it in so many words, perhaps they should rent a plane and spell out that they don't care what I think with smoke. Once that is resolved we can move on to the next step - how is that for a plan?
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It's almost as ridiculous as the notion that you seem to have that your irrational fears of muslimy looking people would evaporate if only you could explain to them that your insecurities are their fault.
Then why do you think that your inability to perceive moderate on extremist muslim outrage is justification for your fear of muslimy looking people?
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I get mixed messages from them, I see some speaking out against the use of terror, I see many being passive, and I see some celebrate the violence or anti-western sentiment.
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And these mixed messages make you get all tingly when you see someone who looks muslim because???
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Yes, your answer is to silence people like me, ridicule people like me, pretend that you are above anything that can be an irrational fear - I got that.
We disagree on the way problems get solved.
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I don't want to silence you. Ridicule you? Yes. That is the appropriate way to respond to folks who obstinately and publicly use flawed reasoning to justify religious intolerance.
Of course I'm not above irrational fear. The key to getting away from irrational fears is recognizing that they're irrational and then, via the disinfecting light of critical thought, choose to stop being afraid. This is different from your method, which seems to be to recognize that your fears are irrational and then justify them with even more irrationality. Because you'd be less irrationally afraid of muslimy people if they could somehow unite and monolithically convince you that they abhor islamic extremism.