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Originally Posted by llama64
Perhaps not much, but I don't know much about the average Islamic so don't take my statement with too much seriousness. It's a personal observation and feeling. I truly am more worried about the average American then any other single group of people in the world.
American fundamentalists hold more political power in the world then any other fundamentalist group I know of. Not only that, the power that they could potentially wield has access to the world largest and most dangerous supply of nuclear arms.
A few zealots running around killing themselves and perhaps 100 other people is not something that worries me. The thought of a religious zealot making another nation glow in the dark simply for not beliving in the same interpretation of a 2000 year old text is something that I worry about.
That's all I meant by it.
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You are silly. That's basically all I can say. You're silly. Maybe that's a bit of an intellectual shortcut, but there is no point engaging a perspective like that.
Want to talk about total religious fruits with access to nuclear weapons? How about Iran? The silly apologists that repeatedly excuse the actions of a "few zealots" is absolutely staggering. By the way, you might have a short memory but those zealots were responsible for a cool 3000 deaths a few years ago. Not too mention the 100s that die in Iraq and Afghanistan due to suicide attacks.
These are just the numbers. There is no other group with such a relentless agenda to dismantle Western values and institutions than radical Muslims. American Christian Evangelists are a diverse group with very little in the way of a common agenda. A large portion of them even vote Democrat. The US also has a large number of practical and democratic safeguards to prevent any single group from taking power.
It's just silly.
