Really? Speaking about a particular religious nutjob/bag is "un-american?" This thread happens to be about a muslim nutjob/bag.
Of course, you wrote "nutbags", which is plural. That eliminated the possibility of your comment being about A particular religious nutjob. That is just how the language works.
That is unlikely to happen.If you don't like my speech, you can simply go away.
I diagreed with the substance of what you wrote. If dissent qualifies as an attack, and you and your friends obviously feel it does based on your comments to me via the reputation system, then obviously my main transgression here is interrupting your back patting party by pointing out the areas where your proposals infringe on civil liberties.Like any good politically-correct leftist, you resort to a personal attack on me because I felt free enough to speak my mind about a muslim nutjob/bag.
Now that you've less than deftly switched back to naming a specific muslim nutjob, no, nothing I've written has 'validated' him or his actions, whatever you mean by that in this context.Did you join these forums just to validate the muslim nutjob/bag?
I would have more respect for the arguments of you and your friends if you would display the courage of your convictions and openly state that, yes, you want to discriminate against people because of their religion. Yes you want to subvert the bill or rights because you are afraid. I'll never agree of course, because I believe you enemies of liberty should be resisted, no matter what they use to cloak your actions.
But continue to dance around the issue. Continue to hand out negative reputation because you and I disagree, for all the harm it does. And if you are looking to debate the actual facts, look up.
Preface..... this is an excercise of freedom #4 as posted above.
A few radical muslims did NOT pull the trigger. One of them did... and he is a muslim. That in itself does not automatically condemn the rest of that religion, but it will make ME view them all with somewhat of a jaundiced eye.
That is a defect I hope you would try to overcome.
It seems like every few weeks , my television tells me that another muslim has either blown something up or was caught planning to .
If what you say is true about there only being a "few radical muslims" , then where is the rest of the muslim community speaking out , condemning their actions ?
I don't know that the rest of the muslim community is obligated to 'speak out' any more than any of us are, as gun owners, because the Fort Hood murderer used a gun. Or men because he was a man or doctors because he was a doctor. Some muslims certainly have disawoved his actions, some haven't. Some have done [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGZBOtKK68"]this[/ame] It doesn't color my perception of those who've remained silent though, because I am not a bigot.
7% is likely the most well researched number you'll find for the percentage of muslims who claim radical beliefs. That figure has been disputed by both sides of the argument, but it is far more solid than "I watched a lot of TV". Even if the right number was as 5% rather than 7%, and they were dangerous enough to justify subverting civil liberties, as many of you suggest we should, then how have we non-muslims managed to survive even this long? Surely they'd have risen up to slaughter us. I mean, there are a couple of billion muslims out there.