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dead_head

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5. I got a question
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:33 PM
Oct 2014

I get into a lot of debates with Sam Harris supporters.
There's something I just can't agree with and maybe you can help me out.

If you go with his proposition that islam is basicly the main source of evil in the world and even though out of billions of muslims are not terrorist they are as guilty as the terrorist for having the same religion.

¨Harris draws an interesting parallel between the abrahamic religions and nazism:
While Hitler and most of the nazi military tortured and killed innocent people, the vast majority of nazi supporters were civilians who took no part in the actual torture and killings, yet they are just as guilty by supporting the basic tenets of the nazi philosophy.
So while the KKK and the Taliban torture(d) and kill(ed) innocent people, the vast majority of christians and muslims take no part in the actual torture and killings, yet they are just as guilty by supporting the basic tenets of the islam/christianity.¨

Basicly your guilty by association because of what you believe in.


If you take this proposition as real, what's the solution?




Since Sam Harris basicly said it's ok to bomb muslims countries because they breed islam and terrorist, I don't get the difference with a terrorist who believes the west is the source of evil for the world.

Thanks !

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