Is Sam Harris becoming a pariah for the anti-religious cause?

[Autumnlicious]

Genocide: "The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."

Ok Smart-Ass, let's run some numbers to see if this is a "genocide" (you shit eating weasel...):

Number killed in current conflict ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel...a_conflict ):
1,065 Gazans
3,333 housing units destroyed (+3,380 partially usable) / 308,695 housing units ( 2-3% total damaged/destroyed max housing )
(total housing unit number extrapolated via http://www.irinnews.org/report/96734/opt...ing-crisis )

Population of Gaza:
1.816 million

Percent killed in current conflict:
0.058%

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Comparison with previous recent recognized genocides:
High end:

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Rwandan Genocide ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide ):
500,000 - 1,000,000 max estimated killed (United Human Rights places it at 800,000 Tutsi killed)

Population in 1994 of ethnic group targeted:
7 million people ( http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocid...rwanda.htm ), of which 14% is Tutsi = 980,000

Percentage killed in Rwandan genocide of targeted ethnic group:
51% to 81%

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Low end:

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al-Anfal Campaign ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Anfal_campaign ):
Estimated 50,000-182,000 Kurds killed
4,000 / 4,655 (90%+) villages destroyed

Kurdish population in Iraq at time:
3.5 million Kurdish

Percent killed:
1.4% - 5.2%

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Definition of Genocide:
"acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Qualifications for Genocide using preceding recognized, recent examples:

1) Mass slaughter/deportations of ethnic group? (Rwandan Genocide example)

Israel has killed less than half of a tenth of a percent of Gazan population (Fails to meet definition)

2) Mass destruction of ethnic group resources (al-Anfal Campaign)

Israel has damaged much less than 10% of Gazan housing (Fails to meet definition)

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Conclusion:

Categorically not a genocide..

Pickup, you're fucking wrong.

Israel has neither destroyed a significant portion of vital Gazan infrastructure nor has it destroyed a significant percentage of Gaza's population.

You're a fucking Hamas-licking fraud.