Apparently, Yelling "Allahu Akbar" While Murdering Innocent People Has Nothing To Do With Islam
http://lastresistance.com/9487/apparently-yelling-allahu-akbar-murdering-innocent-people-nothing-islam/
According to Breitbart:
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the ever level-headed Howard Dean implores Americans not to label these attacks as radical Islamist:
Just as CNN goes out of their way to avoid doing anything that might offend Islam, yet doesn’t seem to care if they display Christ (who half the world believes died for the sins of all humanity)
submerged in piss, Howard Dean dismisses what is obviously an Islamic terrorist attack as unrelated to Islam. What is the root of this insanity? Is it fear, or political correctness?
Just as Mark Finkelstein of NewsBusters writes, Dean is using the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. According to Rational Wiki, the fallacy is characterized by irrational exclusions of evidence:
“Instead of acknowledging that some members of a group have undesirable characteristics, the fallacy tries to redefine the group to exclude them.”
We all know this. We know that while radical Islam is a pervasive, and existential threat to the western world, many simply deny that these attacks have anything to do with Islam. Rather, they claim that those doing the killing are not truly Islamic, but something else entirely. Here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter. One can believe whatever one wants, but the men who just murdered twelve people in France believe they are doing Allah’s work in accordance with the Koran. Additionally, there are many, many open-ended versus in the Koran condoning, and instructing violence against unbelievers. I would list them here, but you all have Google, and can find them for yourselves. So if those who practice peacefully are the “real” Muslims, the definition of “real” must be profoundly different than when I was a kid.
Of course, there are those who, in reaction to the argument that the Koran instructs its followers to execute non-believers, cite biblical versus, and stories in which violence was condoned, or instructed by the Judeo-Christian God. Aside from the fact that these versus, and stories are self-contained, and not open-ended such as those in the Koran, you don’t see many priests getting on buses with explosive collars. Radical Islam is pervasive, and a world-wide problem. Radical Christianity is not. That is a fact. Whatever you believe the intentions of the terrorists to be, they subscribe to the beliefs of Islam, and say so themselves.
I would argue that the widespread avoidance of offending Muslims and the nonchalant attitude toward offending Christians is based in fear. People like Howard Dean, and organizations like CNN are fearful of reprisal should they mock, or offend Islam. However, they regularly and gleefully mock Christianity because there is no fear of reprisal. As I mentioned above, there isn’t a daily death toll amounted by Christian terrorists, because there aren’t any Christian terrorists. Meanwhile, men shouting “Allahu Akbar” are regularly strapping plastique to their chests, and blowing up cafes. That’s enough to make someone afraid for their lives. However, it’s also enough to show that radical Islam is indeed a real threat to our lives, regardless of what you believe is being “twisted,” or “misattributed.”
To argue that Islam is not at the root of this problem is dishonest.
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