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Then I'm very disappointed.You are not the person I thought you were.  |
Not the first time you've said that. Sorry 'bout that
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Originally Posted by Damien
No one on here, I think, has said there isn't a problem with Islamic extremism but that is different to painting a broad brush and saying it's a problem with Islam itself or the people that follow it.
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I'm not saying that all muslims are terrorists. I'm simply objecting to the fact that the folowers of that faith are far more likely than the followers of any other faith to kill in the name of their faith.
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We do know that the likes of ISIS have killed more Muslims than they have killed anyone else so it's clearly not a battle between Islam and us
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That's correct, it's a battle between that backward form of islam and
everyone. If ISIS etc were dominant in western countries the death toll of westerners would quickly rise. The only reason that they have killed more muslims than westerners is because they have
access to more muslims.
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It's not liberal do-goodery to object to the demonisation of 1.5 billion people.
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What I object to when looking at the vast majority of (probably nominally peacful) muslims is that if someone disrespects the koran or the prophet then thousands will riot and protest in the streets but if an act of terror is carried out by someone who uses some passages in the koran as justification then the silence from the muslim world is broken only by their shouts of 'islamophobia'.
That has to change before we can get anywhere with this thorny problem.