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Muslims as terrorists

"flimsy evidence that Islamists were involved in minor incidents such as those in New York, Washington, Shanksville, Madrid, London, Bali et al."

"Only a few muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are muslims"

Perhaps some history is needed. The Oklahoma bombing was commited by a white, republican, NRA member, former U.S soldier, meth smoking lapsed catholic.

Manchester and Warrington were blown up by the I.R.A.

The Tokyo subway was gassed by a group following buddhist and hindu scriptures.

The Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof) was made up of germans.

There are many terrorist groups, with many causes, hell there's even one fighting for cornish independance who have set off bombs.

If all catholics, germans, republicans, cornish residents etc were treated in the same way as muslims there would be outrage.

As the second biggest religion on earth, of course there will be more terrorists who are muslims than say, terrorists who are zoroastrians. Saying all or most terrorists are muslims is like saying that all or most crack addicts are christian though.

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