So I presume the article meant to highlight that Muslim American citizens aren't all that violent?
Larry Send a noteboard - 03/02/2010 04:17:06 AM
Seems like virtually all the talk above is about non-citizens who are perpetrating violent acts, either on or outside US territory. The article's first sentence (which admittedly is lost in the overblown rhetoric that follows) seems to make a good point; U.S. citizens who are Muslim aren't any more radicalized or violent than a host of other groups: Puerto Rican separtists, white supremacists, extreme Zionists, Communists, and so forth. Considering that I live in a region that had a host of church bombings from the 1950s through the present (series of arsons done recently by white supremacists), a region that had a century of lynchings and mob violence, the data presented would seem to jibe with anecdotal evidence that the KKK has done more individual acts of what today would be called terrorism in recent years than any American citizen who follows the precepts of Islam has caused.
Of course, one could look at it from the basis of percentage of membership, but that's not what the article or the debates above focus on, no?
Of course, one could look at it from the basis of percentage of membership, but that's not what the article or the debates above focus on, no?
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All Terrorists are Muslims… except the 94% that aren’t.
01/02/2010 10:42:12 PM
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Lot of BS in there
01/02/2010 11:33:08 PM
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I'm afraid I have to agree with this.
01/02/2010 11:46:02 PM
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Well, no. Robbery accounts for a very small percentage of those attacks. Look at the chart.
01/02/2010 11:50:39 PM
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I found the so-called Islamophobic reply... allow me to quote it in its entirety.
01/02/2010 11:52:37 PM
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It's a valid complaint. *NM*
02/02/2010 01:49:08 AM
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I did note the rampant bias.
01/02/2010 11:48:55 PM
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Most of the Iraq violence isn't against the foreign occupier...
01/02/2010 11:54:44 PM
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Um, since when is all Mid-East terrorism against foreign occupiers?
02/02/2010 12:33:13 AM
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I would agree with this.
02/02/2010 02:33:47 AM
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It was bound to happen sooner or later.
02/02/2010 04:10:13 AM
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This is the only problem I have with "definitions"
02/02/2010 04:51:00 AM
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You're conflating two types of fighters who shouldn't be, I believe.
03/02/2010 06:16:21 AM
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I think you missed the point.
05/02/2010 05:15:40 AM
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One of us did.
05/02/2010 08:26:07 AM
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Churchill's justification of bombings cited civilians as the targets, IIRC
03/02/2010 12:46:16 AM
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I did say, "deliberately, " and for a reason.
03/02/2010 04:23:44 AM
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WTF? Are these people serious?
02/02/2010 02:19:05 AM
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Ah, good. I've driven you out of lurking. Now recommend me operas. *NM*
02/02/2010 02:41:30 AM
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So I presume the article meant to highlight that Muslim American citizens aren't all that violent?
03/02/2010 04:17:06 AM
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How many other attacks killed almost 3,000 people of over 90 different nations?
03/02/2010 06:26:23 AM
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