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Posted by Fred 2014-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 James Dawes is an English literature professor at a small Minnesota college, who managed to talk his employer into funding a human rights program.

Posted by badanov 2014-08-26 00:03|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-08-26 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "We can say they are evil people doing evil things for evil ends. Or we can do the hard work of understanding the context that made them, so that we can create a context that unmakes them."

Ok, Mr Dawes, here's an unmaking context with a proven record of success against theocratic fascism:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and ~~convert them to Christianity~~ force them to observe minimal standards of basic decency as defined by Western Civilization."

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-08-26 01:51|| 2014-08-26 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Shall we call the author a moron?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-26 03:15|| 2014-08-26 03:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I suggest they hate us because of people like the author.

Posted by Airandee 2014-08-26 06:41|| 2014-08-26 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Are they not doing what is set out in the Koran?

The problem to me is religious intolerance in muslim majority countries like Gulf/Pakistan/Iran etc.

Posted by Paul D 2014-08-26 06:59|| 2014-08-26 06:59|| Front Page Top

#6 My experience with people like the author, I live near Boston and they are thick on the ground here, is that these folks are cowards at heart, know that they are cowards, and use this type of "reasoning" to justify their cowardice.

Posted by AlanC 2014-08-26 08:29|| 2014-08-26 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Must just be one of those very long, rhetorical questions. The guy must have need a story for a deadline?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-26 10:47|| 2014-08-26 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Methinks James Dawes would be vewy, vewy quiet, were ISIS adhering to the tenets of Karl Marx rather than Mohammed.

Posted by Pappy 2014-08-26 12:50|| 2014-08-26 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Methinks James Dawes would be vewy, vewy quiet, were ISIS in charge of his small college in Minnesota.

And he'd have a beard...

Posted by Steve White 2014-08-26 13:02|| 2014-08-26 13:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I think if you had a global poll. Is buring children alive evil (yes) or (no) it would be pretty lopsided.

Only those communists who refuse to judge anything, or overthink the question to rationalize their own abortion thoughts would even consider answering no. That is more or less how you define evil, willfully slaying innocents.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-26 14:41|| 2014-08-26 14:41|| Front Page Top

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