[Tfug] religious nutcakes

[Jude Nelson]

Eric,

You will find in this world that less than 1% of Muslims are
"nutcakes".  Just like any mainstream religion, there will always be
small ultraconservative groups within it that give every other
follower a bad name.  Should I think that all Christians are nutcakes
because a few of them kill homosexuals and abortion doctors, or wear
white robes and set crosses on fire?  Should I think that all Jews are
nutcakes because a few of them want to ethnically cleanse Palestine?
Should I think that all Hindus are nutcakes because a few of them try
to occasionally burn down Christian churches?  Of course not--it's
false induction.  Likewise, not all Muslims are "nutcakes" just
because a few of them happen to be terrorists.

Regards,
Jude

On 7/11/08, eric christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:53:14 -0700
>> From: Michael Omar Gatto <gatto_omar at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] religious nutcakes
>> To: <tfug at tfug.org>
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>> Meh, I served in Afghanistan as a Marine. I'd hate to nuke it since there
>> were alot of fine people there and the food is damn good, too. I don't
>> like my curries radioactive, mind you...
>>
> I said the tribal areas, didn't I? thats where the Taliban are attacking
> us from. Its like the SS went to Liechtenstein 1945 and attacked German
> cities in the 1950s.
>>
>> Oh, and as a Persian linguist I don't consider most Muslims as nutcakes
>> and although I personally find some Egyptians rather annoying sometimes
>> (used to be married to one) it doesn't automatically make them assholes or
>> terrorists, me thinks. Rumor has it that UA holds academic conferences and
>> people, apparently (gasp!) sometimes fly in just for a day to score
>> brownie points by saying they attended...
>>
>> - Mike Gatto
>>
> Well, that's just fine. Then you can explain to us the persian concept
> of "ketman" (arabian "taqiya"). I do consider moslems  as nutcakes
> because of their concept of "tauchid" (please excuse the German
> spelling, i know that its spelled otherwise in English "wahid",
> whatever, but i forget). Tauchid is the essence of islam. Tauchid is the
> reason why musselmen hate the west (us). In the West we have this
> plurality,  social life here, private life there, religion here,
> government there and so forth. Not so for the musselman, there is only
> one thing, islam (tauchid). Europe had this tauchid brain damage in the
> Dark Ages, it was called
>
>                               "Consensus fidelium"
>
> See, goddamit. I don't care about religion or tauchid or moslems and all
> this bullshit. But they keep attacking us. This is just a waste of time.
> lets go back to linux, damit.
> Eric
>
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