>That is correct..
Cut the whining. The anti-islamic backlash amounts to nothing more than dirty looks and vauge feelings about what 'may' happen. How does this compare with the actuality of standing in a window, 1,000 feet above the ground, surrounded by a jet fuel fire, deciding whether to jump on not. There is no comparison. Grow up.
I am not "whining"
I am pointing out the unconstitutionality and inherent immorality associated with mass deportations, vigilantism and other forms of religious tyrany.
Perhaps you should stop "whining" and trying to warp emotional rhetoric and populism into a logical argument.
I agree with you on the general argument, DL, but I should point out something that most people don't know: Most (possibly all, but we'll never really know for sure) of the jumpers did not actually make a conscious decision to do so. What happened was that the fire was finally touching them, or else the heat in the room was reaching temperatures that could burn flesh regardless of whether the flames had made it there yet or not. The human central nervous system has an automatic flight response from extreme heat and burning. Remember how your junior high science teacher always used the example of how quickly your body pulls your hand back when you start to burn yourself handling something hot on the kitchen stove? Your spinal cord sends the signal to yank back the hand before your brain even realizes the burn is occuring. Same thing happened to those poor people trapped on the upper floors. One second they were praying for rescue, the next they found themselves in a hundred-story freefall wondering what the hell happened.