riseagainstrocks

John Wilkes Booth?

Ah. Not sure if this thread got him banned, but I've enjoyed reading most of his posts. I mean, they're mostly fear-mongering nonsense that both can't let go of the past (Islam's expansionist history) and willfully ignores it (refusing to accept that Western influence dramatically altered the existing political strands of Islamic fundamentalism over the past century), but enjoyable nonetheless. One is only as good as their rivals.

OccultHawk just gives up too easily.

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Frownland

And for thinking that they're somehow superior in the first place, yes.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Chula Vista

To try and add perspective again. The O2 arena in London has a capacity of 20,000. That's a lot of people. Let's say there's 1 million people who are willing to commit acts of terror in the name of Islam. You'd have to fill the O2 arena 50 times to accomodate a million people.

Based on the number of terrorist acts currently being committed I'd say that 1 million is a pretty generous assumption.

1 million would represent 0.0625% of the total Muslim population.

Again, people need to put away their broad brushes.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

You should post this point a few more times in a row.

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The Batlord

Actually the second bit is about an Arabic-reading imam who wouldn't want to translate the Quran to English for a student because it's forbidden.

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Chula Vista

I will if people still stop getting the point.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

And it's racist to assume that all non-British imams will abide by that (widely contested) fatwa.

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grindy

Why do people just debate about terrorism in this thread? There's also forced marriages, honour killings, discrimination and violence against Christians, Jews and apostates, parallel societies...

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Frownland

Everyone has understood that point for 91 pages, so go ahead and repeat yourself a few more times, get that full blue colour going on in those cheeks.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Chula Vista

Then why still all of the broad brush strokes?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”