This guy does a great job explaining what so many folks seem to struggle articulating re: Islam
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http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/bestoftv/2014/09/30/cnn-tonight-reza-aslan-bill-maher.cnn&hpt=hp_t5&from_homepage=yes&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
Stick with the video beyond the bill maher commentary and you'll see this guy go toe to toe with the cnn pundits. I love his commentary! Poor guy is clearly struggling to keep calm. |
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| Is it Reza Aslan? I think I saw this. |
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"The problem is that you’re talking about a religion of one and a half billion people, and certainly it becomes very easy to just simply paint them all with a single brush." Sums it up!
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What's it like being Muslim? Well, it's hard to find a decent halal pizza place and occasionally there is a hashtag calling for your genocide...
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| The interviewers were not demonstrating their thinking skills. |
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| He is combatting an all too common tendency to generalize. Whether it's Christians and Jews talking about Muslims, Muslims about Christians or Jews, gentiles about Jews, Jews about gentiles, liberals about conservatives, conservatives about liberals, believers about atheists, or atheists about believers. It is so easy to take the most extreme actions or statements of the other group and judge the entire group on that basis. |
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| "The peaceful majority is irrelevant." is all anyone needs to know. As long as there are hundreds of thousands of people with radical Islamic thinking we can not just disregard them and pretend that there is no danger in Islam just because the majority of Muslims are peaceful. |
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You are a fool. --Sun Tzu |
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A fool with a head is better then a fool without one-Me |
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I bet that still sounds witty to you. Reread it. |
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Funny thing is, Muslima, this has been happening to Jews for over 5 thousand years. When is it wrong and when is it right? |
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It is wrong in both cases. How is that not obvious? |
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That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. Hypocrisy is never right. But it's particularly egregious in this case. Jews have been kicked out of better and worse places than Israel. We were taken to task for not fighting back during the Holocaust. Now we take the offense for our own defense. We are fighting back. Not to take your land but to defend our land. What excuse can you give when your own bible tells you to kill the Jew that is behind you? And please don't tell me how most Palestinians are really nice people. That argument works both ways. |
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War over land is the most disgusting thing ever. Land belongs to nobody. It's a planet we live on, not anyone's property. Anyone that goes to war over land is disgusting.
That being said...as long as a huge number of Muslims rage war against "Unbelievers" people will see Islam as just that. And rightfully so. The problem is you never know which ones are the fanatic ones, sleepers, quiet planners who later end up in the news for suicide bombings somewhere in the US. I am sorry but as long as this kind of huge number of Muslims is on a warpath Muslims and Islam in general can not be accepted in the western world. |
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So we are going to relive the Japanese internment camps? I think the logic was exactly the same. |