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Right, but the Islamists are in the minority of Muslims just as fundamentalist Christians are in the minority among Christians. To hate all Christians for the

Right, but the Islamists are in the minority of Muslims just as fundamentalist Christians are in the minority among Christians. To hate all Christians for the actions of a minority of misguided ones is silly. Same with Muslims.

davidw 7y ago
Also, the notion that islamists posed an actual threat to anyone like this guy is pretty risible. They're orders of magnitude less dangerous than his fellow heavily armed rural crazies, as the story bears out.
- linksnapzz 7y ago
  I don't see how he'd need them to be an actual threat to his personal safety in order to not like them. I mean, I don't like bird-eating tarantulas, but here in MA I am unlikely to encounter them.
  - dymk 7y ago
    That's obviously not the issue with this particular flavor of Islamophobia; it's the confusion of nonviolent muslims with the extremists that leads to prejudice.
pdonis 7y ago
> the Islamists are in the minority of Muslims just as fundamentalist Christians are in the minority among Christians There's a difference, though. Non-fundamentalist Christians have done a good job of marginalizing fundamentalist Christians so that the damage they can do is very limited. Non-fundamentalist Muslims have done no such thing to fundamentalist Muslims, which is why the rest of us end up having to deal with them doing things like flying airplanes into buildings, shooting rockets into populated areas, trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons, wanting to establish a global Caliphate, etc.
- microtherion 7y ago
  > Non-fundamentalist Christians have done a good job of marginalizing fundamentalist Christians Such a good job that (to my knowledge) not a single Republican presidential candidate in 2016 was willing to publicly accept evolution: https://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016_candidates_a_complet_guide/ https://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016...

davidw 7y ago

Also, the notion that islamists posed an actual threat to anyone like this guy is pretty risible. They're orders of magnitude less dangerous than his fellow heavily armed rural crazies, as the story bears out.

linksnapzz 7y ago
I don't see how he'd need them to be an actual threat to his personal safety in order to not like them. I mean, I don't like bird-eating tarantulas, but here in MA I am unlikely to encounter them.
- dymk 7y ago
  That's obviously not the issue with this particular flavor of Islamophobia; it's the confusion of nonviolent muslims with the extremists that leads to prejudice.

pdonis 7y ago

> the Islamists are in the minority of Muslims just as fundamentalist Christians are in the minority among Christians There's a difference, though. Non-fundamentalist Christians have done a good job of marginalizing fundamentalist Christians so that the damage they can do is very limited. Non-fundamentalist Muslims have done no such thing to fundamentalist Muslims, which is why the rest of us end up having to deal with them doing things like flying airplanes into buildings, shooting rockets into populated areas, trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons, wanting to establish a global Caliphate, etc.

microtherion 7y ago
> Non-fundamentalist Christians have done a good job of marginalizing fundamentalist Christians Such a good job that (to my knowledge) not a single Republican presidential candidate in 2016 was willing to publicly accept evolution: https://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016_candidates_a_complet_guide/ https://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016...