You know what I find baffling?
There's an entire region of the world where they're covering their children in blood and telling them to go kill the infidels, and somehow
I'm the bigot. I mean, I really can't understand how my concern for a religion that's (by Doormouse's and other's assertions)
chosen to become a violent death cult, that wants to subjugate the world, and is frothing at the bit to kill everyone who disagrees with them has made
me a bad person.
What you fail to realize (or maybe admit?) Doormouse is that these people, who you've become for some unknown reason so enamored with defending, would gleefully slice your head off just to prove how faithful they are to the religion that you claim
doesn't tell them to do these things.
Don't you get it? You can tell us all day long that Islam isn't about killing the infidel and taking over the world, but if you said that to these people they'd scream Infidel and lop your head off.
You say that here in the US Muslims don't want to take over our government or kill the infidel. You say that the violence is the result of fundamentalism, and
extremism, regardless of the facts that Islam's holy books themselves constantly cry out for violence and instruct it's followers to place the world under Islam's rule. So, that leads naturally to the following question.
What is extremism? Extremism is a term used to describe the actions or ideologies of individuals or groups outside the perceived political center of a society; or otherwise claimed to violate common moral standards.
I think that's a pretty fair definition of extremism, do you agree? Now, to me I'd certainly define somebody who would like to strap on a bomb and go blow up a bunch of people as extremist, there's no doubt about it. It's certainly outside of my moral standards and such things would certainly be outside
our society's accepted behaviors and ideologies.
But what are
Islam's ideologies and moral standards, and how do they fall in line with your assertions that killing the infidel is an
extremist interpretation of Islam?
I'd like to compare numbers, but it's difficult to figure out how many Muslims there are in the US. You see, Muslims say other groups deflate their numbers in order to make them appear less important, and non-muslim groups claim that Muslims inflate their numbers so they appear to have more political power than they actually do.
Estimates range from about a million (which sounds way too low) and seven million. But those numbers are from 2001, so I say fuck it! Let's say there are
fourteen million moderate, non blowing-shit-up, Muslims in the USA.
How do they stack up against the number of Muslims in the Middle East, where there are plenty of blowing-shit-up Muslims?
And just because I like you, I'll only include the countries where they
really like blowing shit up. Let's take a look...
Iran - 63,000,000
Iraq - 23,000,000
Palestine - 3,770,000
Saudi Arabia - 22,400,000
Syria - 17,800,000
Afghanistan - 28,000,000
Pakistan - 180,000,000
Total Blowing-Shit-Up Muslim Population: 337,970,000
Total Very Generous Estimate of NBSUMP: 14,000,000
The only possible conclusion is that by the very definition of extremism itself, the
non-blowing-shit-up Muslims are actually the extremists.
Look out! Here comes Doormouse's allegation that I hate niggers!