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Cpl Joshua Caldwell
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islam is only spread by killing and conquest, so they need to add an incentive to the attacker, and profit is a good motivator.
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That's really the equivalent of calling the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church a spokesman for Christianity. The Salafists are nowhere near mainstream Muslims, in fact they are outlawed in many Muslim countries where their books are not even allowed in Mosques, that includes this "spokesman" whose such an extremist his books are banned in Egypt.
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CPT Jack Durish
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SSG (Join to see) - Fine, fine, fine, but what about that miracle you mentioned? You got our interest. How did you do it?
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CPT Jack Durish - Inductive Reasoning, it's not really much of a miracle.
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How many Christians would say they want Biblical law to be the law of the land? What percentage would agree on what Biblical law means? To measure radicals among the US population he took the percentage that said violence against civilians can sometimes be justified, 13%... what percentage of Christians do you think would respond the same way? Despite that, his number is wrong it's only 8%. So we know he's making up his own numbers... then he says 19% of Americans Muslims were favorable to Al Quada or just didn't know. I don't know how many were favorable to al Quada, because mixing it with people who don't know enough to have an opinion means the number is meaningless. What percentage of Americans don't know who al Quada is? My guess is 15-20%. Then he adds the percentages together, even though any reasonable person would know that those percentages should overlap.

So we know he used bad data, we know he used ambiguous criteria and we know he had no intent of providing a realistic picture. Why not just point out that 1-5% of Americans are probably radicalized and that some of those could choose to embrace terrorism? Is that not scary enough?

Religious extremism is a problem, Islamic extremism in particular. That isn't an excuse to demonize the majority of Muslims.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/pew-144000-us-muslims-say-suicide-bombings-civilian-targets-often-or
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The left will tell us that he was just being sarcastic. It wasn't meant to be taken literally.
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No there are some real dangerous extremists out there who should be taken seriously. That said, they do not represent the majority of Muslims.

"Muslim Americans are the staunchest opponents of military attacks on civilians, compared with members of other major religious groups Gallup has studied in the United States. Seventy-eight percent of Muslim Americans say military attacks on civilians are never justified."

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148763/Muslim-Americans-No-Justification-Violence.aspx
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mark, it still doesn't stop honor killings nor terrorist inspired attacks within the US.
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