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Thread #134758 Message #3069203
Posted By: Richard Bridge
07-Jan-11 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Political Correctness goes too far
Subject: RE: BS: Political Correctness goes too far
No I don't mean that Willie - I mean that his failing is the failure etc...
Ake - a single set of connected events (as far as I can see a conjoint investigation) are likely to turn up connected perpetrators, so that set of events is unlikely to be statistically significant in determining the distribution of all perpetrators of similar acts.
Now IF you could establish that it was an intrinsic part of Islam to regards all non Moslems as dissolute and that that tendency was more entrenched in Islam than the equivalent in other religions, you might be starting to focus on a cause for concern - but to get to where you have gone, to advance that to say that Moslems for that reason justify the exploitation of non-Moslems involves a leap of faith without evidence. It is tending to internal contradiction if you link it with the rates of conversion of educated women to Islam.
As you know I am critical of all religions but I don't yet see a case against Islam generally or Pakistanis generally from the facts you cite. Certainly I can see much to be said in favour of Sharia law on interest and banking, but in Islam generally there is freedom of interpretation of most parts of the religion so some spread of beliefs is to be expected.
When you say on the one hand that Pakistanis are generally evil, that Muslims are generally evil, that Albanians are generally evil - er - you do tend to look like a bigot.