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2008-08-01 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-01 08:37|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 ... it is especially disturbing as it focuses on university students, a group that had earlier been assumed to be less prone to extremism.

Assumed by anyone who imagines the universities are not a hotbed for every radicalizing stupidity known to man. Why should the Muslims be left out?

Posted by Excalibur 2008-08-01 10:19|| 2008-08-01 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 In short, I mouth a bunch of clichés without being sure how many of them are really valid.

Well at least the guys honest enough to admit it.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-01 10:43|| 2008-08-01 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait till the pogroms start. Happened a lot to another religious group often characterized as self isolating, secretive, keeping to the old ways, some of who's tenets [which did not include advocating conversion by the figurative/literal sword or butchering whole train loads of the locals] rankled the general population.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-01 11:03|| 2008-08-01 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "Patiently, I explain that immigrants, whether Muslim or not, are forced to leave their homes due to political or economic conditions, so it is often not really a matter of choice."

The unspoken comment is elsewhere in the Muslim world doesn't want them and are actually just as bad a stink-holes as where they came from. Still they could have gone to another nation, I just don't buy this. Many chose the West because of the free cash and prizes.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-01 11:33|| 2008-08-01 11:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Welcome to what Catholic Irish and Italian faced during their first generation of immigration here in the US.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-01 15:20|| 2008-08-01 15:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't remember the Irish and Italians being sermonized that they will cut off the heads of the infidel hosts and rape their daughters. Maybe I slept through that sermon.

Posted by ed 2008-08-01 15:25|| 2008-08-01 15:25|| Front Page Top

#7 No ed, but they were treated like dogs (No DOgs or Irish Allowed), and accused of being traitors (loyal to the pope, etc).

And unlike the Irish and Italians, the Mulsim *DO* cut off heads, "honor kill", etc.

So what are the Muslims to do?

Prove the critics wrong - be peaceful, publicly and loudly criticise those elements of that reinforce stereotypes, flush out the radicals.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-01 18:51|| 2008-08-01 18:51|| Front Page Top

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