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2011-04-17 Britain

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Posted by 2011-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 A brave and intelligent Muslim---not long for this World.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-17 02:16|| 2011-04-17 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the extremists are terrified of any voices of moderation, because of a simple point.

If you look at any group of people, including Muslims, the vast majority of them have "inertia". They just live their lives and never really "do" much of anything other than that.

Extremists of all kinds are always a minority, and their hardest problems is having to push and coerce this inert majority into doing anything. Typically, they do so with violence against their own people, and desperately try to create the illusion that the majority are extremist.

For example, while the vast majority of post-Czarist leftists in Russia were moderates, or "Mensheviks", the "Bolsheviks", a tiny minority, had a name that meant "majority".

In a civilized society, extremists have to do everything in their power to keep the majority isolated and apart from society at large. Because if they integrate, they are no longer under control.

They also are reliant on creating a persecution or victimization complex among their people, the actually rather rare "Islamophobia". Which in most cases should instead be called "Islamoskepticism".

In any event, over time, more and more Muslims in the west are going to start noticing that they aren't persecuted, and are treated fairly equally, or enough so that extremism is seen as just that. Not offering them anything of value.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-17 09:59|| 2011-04-17 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Not offering them anything of value.

it offers them Victim Status, where nothing that happens is their fault -it's the fault of the Infidels or Jooooos

Posted by Frank G 2011-04-17 11:19|| 2011-04-17 11:19|| Front Page Top

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