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Originally Posted by Crumpy-Gunt
In my experience based on the hundreds, upon thousands of Muslims ive had the chance to get to know, I would say less than .01% of them would be the extremist radicals who are willing to cut some journalists head off because they view them as an infidel. 70% of the Muslims I met are either non-religious or moderates who drink and dont hold religious values at all. Close to 30 percent are religious Muslims who pray 5 times a day and fast during Ramadan but are totally against terrorism and violence.
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Your personal experience is narrow, and not representative of global attitudes expressed by Muslims.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/i...s-and-society/
75 per cent of Muslims in Egypt believe sharia should be the law of the land. In Pakistan, that number of closer to 90 per cent. A quarter of Muslims in the UK want sharia to have primacy over secular law. Globally, 80-90 per cent of Muslims believe alcohol, sex outside marriage, and homesexuality are morally wrong. 85 per cent of Muslims believe women should always obey their husbands.
Whatever other values are held regarding violence and terrorism, there is no doubt at all that Muslims are overwhelmingly extremely socially conservative.
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Originally Posted by Itse
What is the worst that people who accuse other people of bigotry do? Get people fired for no good reason?
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Employ shaming and fear to shut down debate and narrow the range of discussion. Or have you missed the weekly apologies in the media by some public figure or other for making comments that were denounced as bigoted? You don't think the fear of media outrage has chilled public dialog on a whole range of issues?
What do you think the range of debate on native issues are for a public figure in Canada today? Do you think that narrow range of acceptable discussion helps or hinders progress of native issues? That's exactly where liberalism and leftism part ways. Liberalism values the widest scope of debate, with the largest number of options and arguments and most wide-ranging and rigorous discussion. The shibboleths and taboos of the left choke off that debate. We live in a society today where accusations of bigotry are the new scarlet letter.