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« on: November 22, 2010, 09:30:53 PM »

No probably not.


 
I want to demonstrate that more people are killed in the name of Islam today than any other religion...by a long shot.  Just reading you admit that is a win in my book.

Oh, so reading that I admit something I never denied is a win in your book ? Funny.


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All geographical areas are different both sociologically, economically and politically. You seem to view the "Third World" as a coherent block with similar characteristics. I'm not saying poverty => terrorism. I'm saying a complicated intrication of several complicated factors could explain terrrorism as another could explain the crusades or the inquisition. Human sciences can help finding answers to these questions, but certainly not prejudices and easy ideological shortcuts.

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You still fail to demonstrate how Islam is in any way tied with terrorism. Yes, there is a correlation, and so ? I think you know statistics well enough to understand a mere correlation means nothing. So, congratulations, you proved that "a large number of them are doing horrible things in the name of their religion", and that's alll. You can't draw any conclusion from that.

Where does prejudice or ideological shortcuts come in? He wasn't just talking about Terrorism, either.  If Iran stones a gay to death, I think you have the right on impulse to say "Thats wrong and it shouldn't happen". Just because the country is muslim, doesn't give it the right to pretend its 1453, just like any other country doesn't have that right. It also happens that most of the nations who still practice that due so because they have sharia law in place. Why is Saudi Arabia or Iran any different then South Africa or any other country that violates the Civil Rights of its own citizens? Why must we hessitate before showing outrage at that kind of thing. 
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