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Clearly the best response to violent and fatal intolerance....is more kneejerk intolerance. Assuming all Muslims are ideologically the same, and that Muslims m

• iofj 11y ago
  That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that. The claim is that the ones that follow this jihad ideology and islamic supremacism are too many to reasonably expect to control without starting a civil war. They are a quite large contingent of muslims as a whole and a very large (certainly 20-30% but probably far more) of muslim youth.
  • rmxt 11y ago
    Rather than dismissing things as "strawmen," it would help if you clearly elucidate your claims before you make (what appear to be) broad brush statements, e.g. "Muslims took to the streets", "What are we supposed to think?". Your original post comes across as prototypical "us vs. them", "we are the good guys" blather. Yes, murder and violence are indefensible, but otherization does nothing to work towards deeper understanding of the causes/issues at play.
  • dang 11y ago
    > That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that. Plenty of Hacker News users claim it all the time, unfortunately.