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KaHOOnah

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Yes it is. But you're a sharp guy, Boca. This is a bad argument.


There's no doubt that there's a struggle within Islam, and there's a consistent undercurrent of extremism within it. I blame the Saudis for that, and a while ago I wrote a very long post about why I think they started politicizing Islam in the 70s for totally rational, realpolitik reasons to counteract spreading Iranian influence and soft power within the Muslim world. I can see if it's still searchable; it took a long time to write...

But yes, it is disturbing, but these people are young and impressionable Reddit dorks. But we all agree that support for truly atrocious actions in the name of Islam is a problem.

My problem is that we pretend that it's a problem exclusive to Islam. At least 20% (I'd think closer to 1/3) of Americans supported our current President when he said he wanted to cluster bomb territories held by ISIS. More innocent civilians would die in that scenario than the sum total of all terrorist attacks perpetrated against the West in history.

So are all these red-blooded Americans who wrap themselves in the flag and beat their Bibles worse than the 17% of British Muslims who responded to a poll 10 years ago? More of these REDBLOODED PATRIOTS supported far more violent and atrocious actions. Is that at least as disturbing? More disturbing? Or not disturbing at all?

(In response to this post by BocaHoo91)

Posted: 05/24/2017 at 11:20AM



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  Related, and a scary thought... -- Stimp 05/24/2017 10:01AM
  I have no doubt that you heard that, but it's wrong -- KaHOOnah 05/24/2017 10:32AM
  Here's where it's coming from I assume... -- BocaHoo91 05/24/2017 10:48AM
  We clearly make the problem a lot worse. I've -- BocaHoo91 05/24/2017 1:35PM
  Interesting ...... -- VaTechie 05/24/2017 12:27PM
  Got ya, -- VaTechie 05/24/2017 12:49PM
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  You sound like an apologist. Shame on you -- nyhoo 05/24/2017 12:15PM
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