RE: David Cameron copies Ben Affleck's approach to Islamic violence
October 28, 2014 at 1:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2014 at 2:04 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 28, 2014 at 3:04 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I've said before that even if only 10% of Muslims were extremists, that's still too many.
Define extremist.
I doubt 10% of any large Muslim society without immediate external pressure would be prepared to strap on a bomb or saw off a head with a Bowie knife.
I doubt even in Muslim societies subject to great external pressure, like those in Gaza or west bank, would you actually find 10% willing to do these things.
What I think you are finding is the small percentage who are willing to do those things have a strong tendency to leave the Muslim society in which they previously lived, find out others of like mind to themselves, and congregate at places where violence is in the offing and form ad hoc groups with high percentage of fanatics. Where these groups bubble up, they are locally powerful because their numbers are locally large and they relish force and violence.
As to large Muslim societies condoning or not objecting to violence towards minorities, that is hardly a fault unique to Muslims. How many good old christain whites tried to stop the popular spectator sport of lynching niggers in the American South just 50 years ago? Appearently these lynchings were often attended by thousands who not part of the Klan, some of these popular good old American lynchings were gruesome beyond any I've seen by ISIS (Victims were hung from chains and raised and lowered repeated into a barn fire while alive, or preganant women in their deaththroes on the scaffold had their fetus cut out), and postcards, actually mailed and postmarked, were issued commemorating the lynching with grisly pictures of dead victims.
Were all those whites who attended lynchings and had barbacure afterwards extremists?
