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Steve, nobody I know (and I know some extremely pacifistic, liberal folks) believes that kind of behavior or idealism to be tolerable but you're guilty of that same kind of painting with a wide brush that liberals and progressives get accused of every day.

Exactly what percentage of Muslims throughout the world believe the things you printed? Is it your contention that it's some overwhelming majority? If so, then it would seem the only recourse is to start sending the nukes flying into the den of Muslim territory and just eradicate them all because these scenarios you describe certainly aren't fixed by these conventional military excursions we keep making.

Do we begin the rounding up of everyone with head scarves into some sort of concentration camps because there are people within their groups that can't be trusted? When those camps start becoming too full to manage, when the trains we use to transport them are overflowing with their human waste, do we then start mass executions to make way for more?

This is exactly the type of fear mongering that sent the extremely sane citizens of Germany down the path we all seem so horrified by today. I'm certain that there were abhorrent actions by some small percentage of Jewish people in Europe that the Nazis capitalized on to start branding all in the demographic as a huge threat to the population.

You are on the path to dehumanization here pal. You find little snippets of alarm and say not word one about the millions of Muslims that live in peace among other cultures and harbour no ill wishes on anyone.

Now, if you've read anything I've posted over the my few years on here, you know that I see threats from the extremes of any organized religion. The interpretation of the Koran by extremists is no more threatening to me than some of the rhetoric I've heard from Christian extremists and their readings of vile passages in the Bible. So, if you want to rail against the Muslims I only ask that you give equal time to the abuses of Christianity and other religions over history. Even though we're in a bit of a lull of Christian violence against others right now since Northern Ireland simmered down, the potential for horrendous things carried out in the name of Jesus is always simmering just below the surface.

Should we nuke all the Christian countries as well just to be safe?

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