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Dr Jack
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Message 6 of 406 (574290)
08-15-2010 8:28 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by Hyroglyphx
08-15-2010 8:14 AM


It's an insulting gesture to many Americans, something akin to:
1. Building a statue of Hitler at Auschwitz
2. Building a GWB monument in Bagdad
3. Building a Benihana at Pearl Harbor
What utter bollocks.
It's an insulting gesture equivalent to building a church near a children's play centre - i.e. it isn't an insulting gesture. The notion that you can blithely equate the roughly billion Muslims in the world, and more specifically the millions of US citizens who are also Muslims, with the handful of people involved in the 9/11 attack who also happen to be Muslims is utter bullshit.
Or should we be assuming that all Christians are kiddy fiddlers on the basis of a few priests?

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Dr Jack
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Message 8 of 406 (574294)
08-15-2010 8:52 AM
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08-15-2010 8:47 AM


What are you getting pissed at me for?
I'm not sure why you thinking I'm getting pissed off at you. I'm replying to the message.
Don't shoot the messenger. Right or wrong, this is how many Americans view it -- as in imposition on sacred ground.
If people have stupid, fuckwitted views should we bow to them, and ignore sense and legality, just because a lot of people hold those views?

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Dr Jack
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Message 14 of 406 (574302)
08-15-2010 9:31 AM
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08-15-2010 9:20 AM


I don't think it's an entirely "fuckwitted" view, they're simply making emotive arguments.
Emotive, bigoted arguments.

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Message 16 of 406 (574306)
08-15-2010 10:15 AM
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08-15-2010 10:02 AM


Terrorist Muslims are terrorists (rightly or wrongly) because of their muslim beliefs.
Are they bollocks.
If that was true there'd be a billion little suicide bombers kicking around. They're no more terrorists because they're Muslims than the IRA were terrorists because they're Catholic.

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Message 23 of 406 (574318)
08-15-2010 10:59 AM
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08-15-2010 10:34 AM


That's a rather dubious twisting of scripture, don't you think? Since when is touching someone necessarily sexually fondling them?
I think you will find that was rather his point. I'd note as well that it's no more dubious that many popular Christian interpretations of the Bible.

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Message 35 of 406 (574377)
08-15-2010 3:17 PM
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08-15-2010 3:11 PM


The priest-pedophilia connection is vastly overrated, read this article by a non-catholic author:Page not found - ZENIT - English
So's the Islam-terrorism link.

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