[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[The Avantguardian]

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On Thu, 12/10/15, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
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 ​When will people get the idea that free
 means free?  Or that a handful of
 Muslims
 do not necessarily characterize the ideas of the other
 billion of
 them?  Stimulus generalization
 gone berserk.
 
 bill w​
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For many generations, we have been free. Since the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers and the revolutions they inspired our ancestors to fight against their oppressors to the civil rights movement of our life times.

But lately, the conflict between radical islamiscists and our government has been slowly stripping our freedoms away one by one. Now whenever we travel by air, we are required to submit to warrantless search and possible seizure of our possessions.

Our emails and phone calls are logged for future examination, should we ever become suspect in a criminal investigation. Every time some lunatic goes on a killing spree, there are calls to take guns away from the people, even though several mass shootings have been stopped by ordinary citizens who were themselves armed. And now it appears that the AG wants to prosecute anybody whose criticism of muslims   sparks violence.

The governments seem intent on preserving the peace at any cost, including our hard won way of life. In the  process, we have lost the color of freedom whilst preserving its rhetoric.

I consider myself to be a tolerant individual: I enjoy eating hummus and I have a few muslim aquaintences although we don't have enough in common to be friends. The muslims I know are peaceful and if our politicians and the media can be trusted so are the vast majority of muslims.

But being a student of history, I will say something that it has taught me. Something the muslim apologists either don't understand or are in denial of. And that is that the vast majority have never determined the direction of historical events. They can only ever add momentum to events already underway whose direction was determined by the desires of small groups of dedicated individuals.

Take WW2 germany, for example. At its height, the Nazi party only ever comprised about 5% of the German population. The other 95% of germans were peaceful
tolerant people. But when the tiny zealous minority wanted to exterminate Jews and take over the world, the  vast majority of "good" Germans did not try to stop them. Instead they just complained about it but went along for the ride none-the-less.

The other billion muslims don't matter. They are powerless and irrelevant. They are sheep that will follow the strongest shepherd even to the slaughter. It is the commited handful that will determine future history.

Incidently, check out is being preached to the peaceful majority of muslims in Tenessee:

http://shoebat.com/2015/04/28/so-called-moderate-muslim-imam-in-tennessee-advocates-extermination-of-all-other-religions/

Stuart LaForge