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Originally Posted by Khellen
Does that make them non-praciticing muslims? haha
I don't see how it's any different then you being a non-praciticing catholic.
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Which was my point. I am called a non-practicing Catholic. I was raised/baptized catholic, went to catholic school. I do NOT practice the religion. As I said, I don't consider myself a catholic, and thus would never pretend to be one (or roughly said that, you can find it in this thread, as i'm sure you already quoted it).
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People were inferring that Islam promotes being an extremist by quoting the kuran....so yes, it was implied in the thread.
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Well, that is how many Americans view Muslim people. I skipped over the quotes do to Asifs inherent interpretations.
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Maybe my post was a bit obscure. It was in reference to suicide bombers and people willing to give their lives for their religion. How many of them do you suppose are rich and powerful? Not many is my guess.
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What is "rich and powerful" to you? I can prove your first point very much so wrong. Depending on "rich and powerful", I might be able to do the same. Is rich anyone that makes over $250k? Or is it a couple million? What about powerful? Do they command 100 people below them? "Rich and powerful" is a bit vague. "Oppression, poverty, and lack of education" is very simple and I am free to point out many people who took up Jihad against westerners.
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I never said that. It is just common sense whenever you occupy a foreign country their is always going to be some fear of reprisal. Not everyone is going to want you to be there. Especially if you're forcing your culture on them. That's just reality. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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My interpretation of what you say is that "we have it coming". Based on what you just said, that is still my interpretation. What you fail to realize is that just decades before, our presence in the Middle East was begged for, and welcomed.
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How is blaming a whole group of religious people any different then the nazis blaming the jews for a poor German economy? It honestly sounds like the only leg you have to stand on in this argument is the references to violence in a book that is thousands of years old.
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I don't blame a whole group for killing innocent people. It's quite obvious the guy with the ugly truck and stupid stickers does though. As if we didn't already know it, yea, he is an idiot. Americans, as we already know, have more supported negative views based on Islam do to plenty of other reasons.
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Originally Posted by Nick Merrone
Is that fez from that 70 show?
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In the red jacket? I think you might be on to something...