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Author Topic:   Islamophobia or a real reason to fear?
nwr
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Message 6 of 21 (710367)
11-04-2013 10:04 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by AZPaul3
11-04-2013 9:32 PM


Re: crazy folk are crazy
Don't miss the point being made here. These are not fundamentalist moslems vis-a-vis fundamentalist christians. These are the mainstream moslems.
Suppose you had a room full of mainstream Christians. And suppose, at the podium, you had people who were obviously Christian clerics.
Now suppose that the clerics asked some very leading questions, worded in a way to suggest that people would be violating their Christianity if they did not respond in a particular way.
How do you think those mainstream Christians would respond?

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nwr
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Message 13 of 21 (710395)
11-05-2013 7:58 AM
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11-05-2013 3:05 AM


Re: crazy folk are crazy
But I understand your point. Peer pressure is powerful.
But so is the prevailing view of the moslem majority that ...
I certainly think that Islam poses a threat. But, in the USA, I am currently more concerned by the threat from right wing Christianity.

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