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Old 08-25-2010, 03:13 PM   #185
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
I was expecting this with the way the rhetoric has been ramped up, it's getting out of control.

At the same time this serves as a good teaching moment for not painting an entire group of people with one brush due to the actions of a lunatic. This doesn't reflect on everyone opposed to the community center for whatever reason, the same way that the actions of hijackers shouldn't be used to paint all Muslims as terrorists.
I would also be careful, like yourself, to blow this incident into something more than the act of a delusionary madman who just needed "something" to set him off. This doesn't reflect an anti-Muslim attitude among Americans... yet. Although some of the demagogues on the popular right are trying their damndest.
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