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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Nothing "equivocal" about it. I was the PP you've quoted. Taking someone's life is murder - be it in the name of Allah, Christ, Yahweh, or whatever your name is for the Higher Being to which you pray.

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O.K. I can play like that too:  "Backlash and discrimination against Muslims is bad but so is discrimination against any other people or ethnic group or religion or race.   That would certainly include the actions of the Islamic terrorists in Paris and Bali and the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed the Israelis recently."

Are you satisfied jsteele?  LOL[/quote]

I wasn't the one who posted that, but I am satisfied with the words. However, actions are stronger and your actions suggest that you feel that a backlash against Muslims is justified if they fail to denounce violence in a manner acceptable to you. You don't appear to have the same standard for any other group. So, let's see action that matches your words.
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Except I never said a "backlash" as you have defined it is justified.  Did I?

In any event, we both agree that discrimination or backlash is bad, but surely you agree that discrimination that takes the form of actually murdering hundreds of people with machine guns and suicide bombs is far far worse in both number and degree than any of the isolated incidents of anti-Muslim "backlash" in the U.S. that you have been bitching about, and I'm sure you would also agree that your feeble attempts to establish a false moral equivalence between the two forms of discrimination is not only serving to place you in the role of apologist for those murdering terrorists, but dishonors the dead.[/quote]

To the extent that I can understand what you are saying about being an apologist, I disagree. As for the issue of posting about a backlash, I also disagree. Let's say I stub my toe and feel a lot of pain. Based on your logic, I couldn't complain about the pain if I had a neighbor who had terminal cancer. We can both agree that cancer is worse than a stubbed toe. But, I think I should still be allowed to complain about my toe. I am pretty sure you feel the same way, but your prejudice is negatively influencing your thinking right now.

When someone starts a thread about violence committed by Muslims, we don't ask them to state that they denounce a backlash against innocents that may arise from that violence. That would obviously be unseemly. What you fail to understand is that it is equally unseemly to expect an innocent person who is the victim of a backlash from an act they had nothing to do with to denounce the that act. I am very sure that you reject the notion that all white Americans bear some responsibility for slavery. Similarly, Muslims reject the idea that all Muslims bear responsibility for the acts of a minority.
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