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Thread #131552   Message #2976129
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Aug-10 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic cultural centre near ground zero
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic cultural centre near ground zero
"...most of the attendants were middle class, not extremists of any kind.

Two statements there, not one - "middle class" and "not extremists of any kind". Both may well be true, but one doesn't follow from the other. "Middle class" extremism has historically been the most frightening extremism of all.