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Thread #92719   Message #1775608
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
04-Jul-06 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: 1 in 10 Muslims think bombers were martyrs
Subject: RE: BS: 1 in 10 Muslims think bombers were martys
OK - seeing as have gone to the trouble of detailing the points you wish me to address I will.

1 that the bombers being Muslims is significant.
It isn't. The fact that they are bombers is far more so. There are 2.4 billion Moslems in the world. A tiny fraction of them are bombers. The bombers have far more in common with Terrorists/Freedom Fighters from other religions than they have with the majority of Moslems.

2That you never get Palestinian Christians blowing themselves up.
I didn't know that Palestinian Christians were fighting for anything.

3That the one thing that unites these disparate murderers is their religion
Untrue. Many things unite them.

4 that their religion is not incidental, but fundemental, to their mindset.
It is more likely that violence is their fundematal mindset. The religion is incidental to them.

I have scrolled back. I did not cast any insults at all before you decided I was self-righteous, sanctimonious and priggish. Have a look yourself. If you insist that I did will please give me an example.

Try looking at the facts a bit more and you may even decide that most Moslems, like most people, are OK after all.

Cheers

DtG