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Home Front: Culture Wars
Did FrumForum's Guardiano actually read the headline before trashing the editorial below it?
2010-08-24
"That's why no respected journalist or publication would ever dare to write such a headline about blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, and any other minority group for that matter. But Muslims, apparently, are fair game. They can be written off as the alien 'other,' and no one seems to care."

Ah, nice touch there at the end, Guardiano, mentioning "the other," and thus aligning yourself with the basic liberal smear that conservatives are just a bunch of narrow-minded paranoids who fear anybody and everybody who is "different."

But that's a topic for another day. For now, here's why Guardiano's sophistic analogy is, to use a technical term for "illogical and utterly fallacious," a crock: Blacks, Jews, Hispanics and Asians don't characteristically choose to live in countries where people who convert from the official established religion face death, often by the most brutal of methods.

Thus, substituting "Black" for "Muslim" as you did makes no sense; it's literally a non sequitur because only Muslims typically choose to live in such countries, and last time I checked, killing somebody because they refuse to follow your preferred religion is the bloody essence of religious bigotry.
Posted by:Fred

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