[ExI] Sarah Palin

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 01:00:20 UTC 2010


2010/7/20 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Robert Picone wrote:
>>
>> Not supported in any way? I guess that's why on September 12 2001 huge
>> demonstrations spontaneously broke out all over the Islamic world condemning
>> the hijackers. Oh wait that didn't happen.
>
> You know what?  The Amish also didn't break out in spontaneous large
> demonstrations, neither did Novascotians or the Iroquois.
>
> If every one of the 19 hijackers who murdered nearly 3000 people on 911 were
> Italian I'll bet the very next day there would be huge demonstrations of
> italians showing how appalled they were, the same goes for Irish or Japanese
> or just about ethnic group you could think of, except for the Islamic.
>   John K Clark

Apples & Oranges.  Islamic isn't an ethnic group, it's a shared
belief.  That it isn't shared universally is a source of great concern
for both believers and non-believers.  The same could be said of many
prevailing flavors of monotheism.  It is difficult to paint a very
accurate picture with such a broad brush.




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