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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele] I agree that IS and Algerians living in Paris don't read DCUM. I said as much in an earlier post. I don't write for their benefit. Rather, I try to discuss things with the mostly US residents that read this forum. I am not going to rehash all of our earlier discussions -- feel free to go read the earlier threads if you have forgotten. If you believe that criticizing an entire religion is beneficial for achieving your goals -- whatever they are -- then by all means do it. I have never prevented you from doing it. IS has made clear that they welcome your doing exactly that. For myself, I advocate a smarter strategy. Instead of dividing Muslims from the West, we should divide Muslims from IS. I don't believe that you do that by insulting them.
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Thanks for that. Another non-answer to my questions about whether Muslims are really as fragile as you think, whether ISIS is right that unkind words from DCUM are going to lead to mass Muslim uprisings in Europe, or whether conciliation has worked historically. Thanks also for the sinister references to "whatever my goals are", suggestions that I've forgotten earlier discussions, and assertions that your way is "smarter". (Note: do NOT call me butthurt again. I always point out your insults because I think it's better than getting down in the mud with you.)

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Why can't you just say that?

How exactly do you "divide Muslims from ISIS"? With cupcakes? I posted earlier that we need social and economic policies, so you don't own that, but it hasn't exactly worked in Europe either. Maybe they just need to try harder.... I still think, however, that as long as verses about how God wants you to kill unbelievers are allowed to stand without broad-based moral challenges, from within and outside Islam, then some future group like ISIS, the Taliban, or al Qaeda, maybe 50 years from now, will think they should act on these verses.

Signed, another fed up liberal[/quote]

^fed-up. Because... oh never mind, just let me correct myself[/quote]

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