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What about leaking bookmarks from Al-Quran app?

cryoshon 13y ago
Still a ridiculous unneeded incursion onto an individual's right to be left alone when they aren't hurting anyone. As violent and primitive as the Islamic fundamentalists are, the vast, vast, vast majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims are not fundamentalists, nor are they terrorists, nor do they aid terrorists. The phrases that people bookmark in a religious app book are a very far cry from demonstrable intent to commit violence, anyway. If you spied on everyone's bookmarks in religious text apps, I'm fairly certain that if you pitched it properly you could depict my own gentle mother as a genocidal crusader.
- Crito 13y ago
  While I would agree that the "vast, vast, vast" majority of Muslims do not present a threat to national security, it is going too far to say that the "vast, vast, vast" majority are not fundamentalists. The majority are almost certainly not, but a frighteningly large minority are. For example, only 54% of Muslims in Turkey believe that suicide bombings are never justified, and 16% believe that they are sometimes or often justified: http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/10/muslim-publics-share-concerns-about-extremist-groups/#suicide-bombing http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/10/muslim-publics-share-con... This should not be particularly surprising. Fundamentalism also runs strong in Christianity. Nearly half of all Americans are creationists, believing that the earth is only a few thousand years old, and that people did not evolve (we're not talking Catholic-style "god used evolution" creationism here, we're talking straight up "literal talking snake" creationsim): http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-huma... People take religion seriously, film at 11.
  - judk 13y ago
    "Fundamentalist" is code for militant here, and you knew that. What percent of Americans believe drone attacks are justified? What does "fundamentalism" have to do with any of this?

Still a ridiculous unneeded incursion onto an individual's right to be left alone when they aren't hurting anyone. As violent and primitive as the Islamic fundamentalists are, the vast, vast, vast majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims are not fundamentalists, nor are they terrorists, nor do they aid terrorists. The phrases that people bookmark in a religious app book are a very far cry from demonstrable intent to commit violence, anyway. If you spied on everyone's bookmarks in religious text apps, I'm fairly certain that if you pitched it properly you could depict my own gentle mother as a genocidal crusader.

Crito 13y ago
While I would agree that the "vast, vast, vast" majority of Muslims do not present a threat to national security, it is going too far to say that the "vast, vast, vast" majority are not fundamentalists. The majority are almost certainly not, but a frighteningly large minority are. For example, only 54% of Muslims in Turkey believe that suicide bombings are never justified, and 16% believe that they are sometimes or often justified: http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/10/muslim-publics-share-concerns-about-extremist-groups/#suicide-bombing http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/10/muslim-publics-share-con... This should not be particularly surprising. Fundamentalism also runs strong in Christianity. Nearly half of all Americans are creationists, believing that the earth is only a few thousand years old, and that people did not evolve (we're not talking Catholic-style "god used evolution" creationism here, we're talking straight up "literal talking snake" creationsim): http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-huma... People take religion seriously, film at 11.
- judk 13y ago
  "Fundamentalist" is code for militant here, and you knew that. What percent of Americans believe drone attacks are justified? What does "fundamentalism" have to do with any of this?