(June 29, 2016 at 4:01 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I don't know how you'd determine, on the basis of what you'd consider islamist tendencies...in conversation....whether or not you should be suspicious of a person.
Ask the average mom with her kids at walmart in any red state whether she thinks that gods laws should be the laws of the US and she'll stare at you blankly, as if they -already were-. She's probably not there to buy materials for a pipe bomb, regardless. If we could figure out who to worry about by just talking to them, this whole terrorist thing would be a non-issue. We'd have the FBI setting up polite conversation booths on every street corner, and the military firing "hey, let's talk sometime" projectiles at suspected sponsors.
Your mom with her kids at walmart isn't likely to think and wish that gays and atheists should be murdered, women should be second-class citizens and that insulting her religion is a crime that justifiably calls for terrorist acts.
There's no debating someone who is intentionally pulling the wool over their own eyes. That analogy is so ridiculous I shouldn't have even responded to it. Alas, I am always hopeful some glimmer of sincerity will shine through such obscure tactics of conversation.