UK to leave EU

[Excited Penguin]

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. 

We'd find plenty of muslims who don't think that either, but would respond in the affirmative when asked whether or not the laws of allah should be the laws of the US.

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.

Right, because....it's not like people hold theocratic beliefs that they fail to act upon...be it the lady at the walmart or the man in the mosque.

I agree, and as long as their interpretations of said laws of allah fall within legally appropriate areas, there shouldn't be any problem with their beliefs. That, Rhythm, is precisely what everyone is hoping to achieve. But believing naively that this is so for enough muslims already that their particular religion doesn't represent a graver problem than any other group in the world at the moment isn't going to help us achieve that goal.

It isn't like that. The man in the mosque does act out on those beliefs far more often than your lady at the walmart does. Not to mention, the nature of the first's beliefs, his interpretations of them and their subsequent consequences far surpass in graveness, on average, the latter's, and that's all the difference in the world.