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Originally Posted by longsuffering
That a boy. If it makes you feel better keep a closed mind and refuse to consider real world experiences of people who live amongst Muslims.
I'm not trying to refute anything that you're saying about ISIS. What I find intolerable is that are too quick to paint all of Islam with the same brush. Have you read the Old Testament? Some pretty inflammatory prose there. Should all Christians be judged for their faith as a result?
Your dogmatic position makes me wonder whether you're one of the anti-Muslim, anti-refugee proponents who increasingly confront Canadian Muslims going about their daily lives.
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This is straight from my post:
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The fact that a huge component of the Muslim world chooses to ignore and/or "moderate" sections of the doctrine is a great thing,"
I'm not certain if you read what I wrote as I acknowledge that the percentage of Islamists is still small in relative terms (but in absolute terms in many times the population of Canada).
This is the problem with this discussion. People are making a mistake in logic by assuming that suggesting terrorists are driven by ideology, that that conclusion can be used to generalize against all Muslims. That's not the case, and that's not what I'm doing.
We can have a relatively objective conversation about the religion, and what it teaches, and how that informs the activities of the extremists.
The problem with your viewpoint is that it seeks to use a PC argument to avoid a discussion that is necessary and useful. It's just a way of trying to shout down a legitimate discussion.