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07 Jul 2012, 12:44 pm

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The fact of the matter is, most Muslims in North America don't fit the description those articles you provided portray them as. I will be the first to admit, there are American and Canadian Muslims who are fanatical and full of hate, but as most are not, it's wrong to paint them all with the same brush.
The fact is, real liberals tend to realize that stereotyping whole peoples is not only morally wrong, but is factually incorrect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


True but most Liberals tend to just Stereoptype Christians in America because their the mayjority. But then again Christians tend to make them self look like a total arse most of the time to.



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07 Jul 2012, 12:47 pm

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The fact of the matter is, most Muslims in North America don't fit the description those articles you provided portray them as. I will be the first to admit, there are American and Canadian Muslims who are fanatical and full of hate, but as most are not, it's wrong to paint them all with the same brush.
The fact is, real liberals tend to realize that stereotyping whole peoples is not only morally wrong, but is factually incorrect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


True but most Liberals tend to just Stereoptype Christians in America because their the mayjority. But then again Christians tend to make them self look like a total arse most of the time to.
My parents are Christians who are liberal, impossible!

fixed the major error in my statement


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07 Jul 2012, 12:48 pm

Delphiki wrote:
Joker wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
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The fact of the matter is, most Muslims in North America don't fit the description those articles you provided portray them as. I will be the first to admit, there are American and Canadian Muslims who are fanatical and full of hate, but as most are not, it's wrong to paint them all with the same brush.
The fact is, real liberals tend to realize that stereotyping whole peoples is not only morally wrong, but is factually incorrect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


True but most Liberals tend to just Stereoptype Christians in America because their the mayjority. But then again Christians tend to make them self look like a total arse most of the time to.
My parents are democrats who are liberal, impossible!


My mother like me is a political independent' Don't know my father so I have no clue what his political views are.



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07 Jul 2012, 1:25 pm

Joker wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
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The fact of the matter is, most Muslims in North America don't fit the description those articles you provided portray them as. I will be the first to admit, there are American and Canadian Muslims who are fanatical and full of hate, but as most are not, it's wrong to paint them all with the same brush.
The fact is, real liberals tend to realize that stereotyping whole peoples is not only morally wrong, but is factually incorrect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


True but most Liberals tend to just Stereoptype Christians in America because their the mayjority. But then again Christians tend to make them self look like a total arse most of the time to.


More like liberals screech and point fingers at the Christians over comparatively insignificant flaws in an effort to draw unfavorable attention to the Christians and put them on the defensive while Islam continues to infect the western world. Call it a diversionary tactic of potentially (to put it mildly) catastrophic proportions.
And again:
It wasn't Presbyterians that brought the WTC down.
It wasn't Catholics that bombed the USS Cole.
It wasn't Baptists that bombed the American and French barracks in Beirut.
It wasn't Methodists that were responsible for the Madrid train bombings.


Islamic Terrorist Attacks - Wikipedia

But hey, those are insignificant little things when compared to the butthurt those horrible Christians have done with a little gay bashing here and abortion protesting there, right?
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07 Jul 2012, 1:26 pm

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"Thinking yours is absolute is the most arrogant thing there is" - no kidding. That is the exact mindset of people like Breivik. It is not the only common characteristic of humans. It is a common characteristic of insane people. When you stop thinking of insane people as a legitimate metric for setting morality, you will understand how fallacious every single argument you have presented is.


How are my arguments fallacious? What I'm saying is that there is no universal, absolute morality. Killing children isn't wrong. It's perceived to be wrong by large parts of the world, but then again, not by other parts of the world. In some cultures, children can be legitimate targets for torture and murder during blood feuds. Current ones are often islamic, but some parts of Africa are known for having tribal warfare in which children are legitimate targets. In North Korea, meanwhile, children can be imprisoned, sentenced and executed in some rather disturbing ways depending on their family ties.

Saying this is just one madman, and that this doesn't happen on a large scale elsewhere, and that his actions are therefore inherently immoral according to almost everyone in the world is ridiculous.

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I did, and you came back with a non-reply. Once things start moving, you shift goalpost. I don't have patience for this, and I will treat this behavior with contempt when I see it.


Get your eyes checked. I'm not moving the goalposts - I'm just discussing along as the discussion goes along. My first post was about liberals, and now we're discussing the American Civil War while I'm being accused of supporting Breivik's actions after I was compared to Hitler. Goes to show what legitimate discussions can become if you give people time and internet. What I have noticed, though, is that my posts have been structurally misinterpreted by liberals. Don't infer anything. Respond to the exact thing I'm saying. If you need to wonder about what I meant, don't respond to it, because you will be wrong. What I say is what I think, and you should not look for explanations beyond that.

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You are conflating religious sacrifices thousands or hundreds of years ago with the actions of a lunatic one year ago in a very transparent attempt to justify his action.


And blood feuds, and islamic terror, and tribal warfare in Africa at this very moment. It's even rather hard to imagine Breivik's was the worst massacre that week. I remember reading about it from Germany, where I was on a holiday, and thinking "would that have been news at all if it had been yet another sectarian conflict in Nigeria or Sudan killing a hundred and thirty people instead of just over seventy in Norway?"

Thing is, morality isn't universal. If you live in the west, chances are you'll consider your own society one of the most enlightened in the world. However, if you go to an islamic country, they'll tell you what you're after isn't better, and they'll probably add that their way is better. Truth is, there is no universal set of morals that applies, or should apply. Thinking there should, or even that there is, is a conservative point of view in itself.

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Those sources are crap. Why should I not criticize them? Sun Media has been busted repeatedly for fraudulent reporting and has retracted statements several times due to their factually challenged nature. Sun, like Fox, is not a news organization. It is an entertainment body, nothing more. I will not take it any more seriously than I take Entertainment Tonight or Perez Hilton's show. In any case, I didn't say anything bad about the Sun video, which I described as "interesting".


If a source is wrong, point out why it's wrong instead of saying you disagree and it could be wrong.

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I notice you have completely avoided responding to the biological argument I presented you, probably because you don't know enough about it to think up any more rhetoric and jargon to send my way.


Look at my statement about you guys reading things into things I say. The second half is pure speculation, and didn't have to be included. It cost me ten seconds of my life to read, and another twenty to respond to.

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There are now three things you have specifically avoided answering: 1) Active participation in American politics has been consistent for hundreds of years


Which is completely irrelevant to what I claimed and what's backed by actual sources. My claim was, literally, that it was just a minority of the inhabitants of the colonies actively supporting the rebels, and therefore it wasn't the type of popular uprising it's often claimed to be.

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2) Biological drives also shape morality, and the biological urges of psychologically sick people are not the metric used for determining what is moral or legally right


I'm not at all sure why this is relevant. What Breivik did - killing dozens of young politically-active people - is unique for the western world, but would go largely unnoticed in Africa. What he did is not a metric for determining anything, and I don't remember saying that. However, what he did is not unique, even in today's world. It is, though, unique for western standards, because for the past decades, western nations managed to get past the point of murdering and looting each other every other decade.

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3) That those who engage in brutal and sadistic behavior for political motives are not doing it because it is morally acceptable in their place of origin, but because it is not; they engage in this behavior because it is successful at suppressing those they are opposed to due to its extreme nature


That's not at all what Breivik's explanation was. It is, though, part of the explanation for islamic terrorism. Some say people will be less inclined to insult the prophet Muhammad if a film maker in the Netherlands was murdered for insulting the prophet Muhammad. And indeed, I've seen very few drawings of Muhammad in my life, "out of respect for islamic faith" while a clearly-christian Jesus is shown being raped by a catholic priest on public media, so it's probably working. Ironically, the last time I saw a drawing of Muhammad, it was a muslim-drawn one, which pretty much undermines the way fundamentalists are seriously threatening the rest of the world until they murder each other on a larger scale than they are doing now.



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07 Jul 2012, 1:26 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:


The fact of the matter is, most Muslims in North America don't fit the description those articles you provided portray them as. I will be the first to admit, there are American and Canadian Muslims who are fanatical and full of hate, but as most are not, it's wrong to paint them all with the same brush.
The fact is, real liberals tend to realize that stereotyping whole peoples is not only morally wrong, but is factually incorrect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer





Indeed. I'm so sick of these religious wars and I refuse to take sides in the christian-muslim clash. These 2 are rival religions are expansionist and that is the fact of the matter. I really wish that Russia's next leader will be a hard-line soviet style communist(Putin is NOT a communist FYI) who restart the cold war abroad and drive the orthodox church back underground at home(along with stamping out chechen terrorism and separatist ambitions).



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07 Jul 2012, 1:32 pm

AspieRogue wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Raptor wrote:


The fact of the matter is, most Muslims in North America don't fit the description those articles you provided portray them as. I will be the first to admit, there are American and Canadian Muslims who are fanatical and full of hate, but as most are not, it's wrong to paint them all with the same brush.
The fact is, real liberals tend to realize that stereotyping whole peoples is not only morally wrong, but is factually incorrect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer





Indeed. I'm so sick of these religious wars and I refuse to take sides in the christian-muslim clash. These 2 are rival religions are expansionist and that is the fact of the matter. I really wish that Russia's next leader will be a hard-line soviet style communist(Putin is NOT a communist FYI) who restart the cold war abroad and drive the orthodox church back underground at home(along with stamping out chechen terrorism and separatist ambitions).


So you want another Christian holocaust happening in Russia Stalin had Chritians killed off for his political motives along with many many Jews ect. Wanting Russia to be Communist again is insane.

History will show you Communism is a epic fail.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:19 pm

[quote="HisDivineMajesty"][/quote]

wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


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07 Jul 2012, 2:22 pm

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wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


Muslims in African nations are not like the ones in Arab nations. So the stereotype he thought up doens't stand.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:23 pm

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wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


I must ask the same question.
Remember that Hitler and the Nazis were not Muslims, that the Romans were not Muslims, that a vast numer of the Chinese that committed genocides were not Muslims. And I can keep going. Evil exists in all pockets of humanity, and people of every religion or lack of can descend into madness.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:25 pm

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wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


I must ask the same question.
Remember that Hitler and the Nazis were not Muslims, that the Romans were not Muslims, that a vast numer of the Chinese that committed genocides were not Muslims. And I can keep going. Evil exists in all pockets of humanity, and people of every religion or lack of can descend into madness.


QFT.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:29 pm

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wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


I must ask the same question.
Remember that Hitler and the Nazis were not Muslims, that the Romans were not Muslims, that a vast numer of the Chinese that committed genocides were not Muslims. And I can keep going. Evil exists in all pockets of humanity, and people of every religion or lack of can descend into madness.


Yes but in the past few decades the Chinese, Nazis, and Romans haven't done much in the form of genocide.
With that said I'm more concerned with a dirty bomb in the hands of an Islamic terrorists than the Luftwaffe strafing my neighborhood with an Me-109.


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07 Jul 2012, 2:38 pm

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wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


I must ask the same question.
Remember that Hitler and the Nazis were not Muslims, that the Romans were not Muslims, that a vast numer of the Chinese that committed genocides were not Muslims. And I can keep going. Evil exists in all pockets of humanity, and people of every religion or lack of can descend into madness.


Yes but in the past few decades the Chinese, Nazis, and Romans haven't done much in the form of genocide.
With that said I'm more concerned with a dirty bomb in the hands of an Islamic terrorists than the Luftwaffe strafing my neighborhood with an Me-109.


Their are Christian Terrorists in American Kights of The Ku Klux Klan and the new KKK. No terrorist is good their all equally evil.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:39 pm

I worry about nuclear weaponry in the hands of ANY fanatic, religious or otherwise.
You only seem worried about certain fanatics. I'll leave it at that.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:45 pm

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let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


Let me start by questioning your reading comprehension skills. No, I don't. I know one muslim who's broken all stereotypes. What you shouldn't forget, though, is that his type is rare - he's well-educated and from a wealthy Moroccan city, while most Moroccans who come here are from the religiously-conservative countryside, and are often ethnic Berbers - a problematic group even in Morocco. Most muslims we receive are not that well-adapted, don't speak two European languages adequately before ever having visited Europe, and aren't inclined to adapt all that quickly. In fact, the second and third generation are usually worse rather than better.

As for African nations, I didn't claim them to be the same. Some are relatively succesful, like Namibia (it's like a European city, only warmer!) and most of North Africa before the 'Arab Spring'. However, in some parts of Africa, there is a pattern of ethnic, tribal or sectarian warfare. Examples include Nigeria, Sudan, the area between Mali and Libya, large parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, parts of Uganda, and the political part of Zimbabwe.



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07 Jul 2012, 2:58 pm

Joker wrote:
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JanuaryMan wrote:
Oodain wrote:
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wow

let me ask you this, do you think all muslims fit the stereotype you have put forth?

or all african nations?


I must ask the same question.
Remember that Hitler and the Nazis were not Muslims, that the Romans were not Muslims, that a vast numer of the Chinese that committed genocides were not Muslims. And I can keep going. Evil exists in all pockets of humanity, and people of every religion or lack of can descend into madness.


Yes but in the past few decades the Chinese, Nazis, and Romans haven't done much in the form of genocide.
With that said I'm more concerned with a dirty bomb in the hands of an Islamic terrorists than the Luftwaffe strafing my neighborhood with an Me-109.


Their are Christian Terrorists in American Kights of The Ku Klux Klan and the new KKK. No terrorist is good their all equally evil.


Yes but they are a far lesser threat than the people I'm talking about.
By comparison I'd rather have a cold than lung cancer.
I don't know how many different ways I need to explain that or if I should even bother.


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