Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: papertyger

No, that is not what I am saying at all. That is a horrendous leap of logic.

What exactly am I supposed to be accepting as fact again? That all Muslims are deserving of death? I think that's it. So let's look at this...

First off, I don't know that this is a provable statement. Whether someone "deserves" to die is not always subjective (I would argue that there are those who do deserve death by any decent standard), but it IS very tricky to combine logic and morality.

But, assuming that we can safely say that it is a fact someone deserves to die (and surely there are plenty of terrorists who deserve worse than that), what you are suggesting here is still beyond logic. If every Muslim I had ever met deserved death, it might be a safe assumption that the next one I met would as well, but it would not be a proven fact.

Finally, WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING IS F*CKING SICK!!!! Really, I don't see why anything you could say should be expected to change my mind. I can't think of anything you could say that would convince me the Holocaust was OK either.


76 posted on 11/18/2004 7:29:39 PM PST by smcmike
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies ]


To: smcmike

Despite your attempts to blur distinctions with hyperbole, the simple fact is you are refusing to entertain a distinct possibility. That is, that islam is inherently antagonistic (murderously so) to anything that is not islam.

As to my logic...your disapproval of it does not invalidate it. You have already answered the one question that catagorically proves you are incapable of taking an objective view. I learned long ago not to waste time arguing with people whose ideas and philosophies are so fuzzy and nebulous that they're unable to recognize if and when they are wrong.

That's not to say that you are wrong; just that you would be unable to recognize it if you were.

Your anecdotes about "good" moslems in no way invalidates the proposition that those "good" moslems are engaged in some very real cognitive dissonance where their religion is concerned. As one Rachel Lipkin recently said on arab television " There is no such thing as a good moslem. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they aren't good people; just that there is no such thing as a good moslem."

While the proposition of wiping out huge swaths of humanity is absurd, there is a distinct possibility that Ann Coulter's suggestion isn't.


77 posted on 11/18/2004 10:29:39 PM PST by papertyger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson