Reply #103: You're very helpful in getting to the heart of the issue.

[coti]

This is exactly why we need to have this conversation.

It's almost as if you think "the Muslims in question" had something to do with flying planes into the WTC and the Pentagon. They didn't.

Really, they had nothing to do with it.

I know! It's crazy, but it's true. Different people can call themselves "Muslim" (there are hundreds of millions of such people across the world, after all), yet still hold totally OPPOSING views on the moral soundness of flying planes into buildings! In fact, I'd guess that the vast, vast majority of Muslims in the world aren't that supportive of such ideas, as, generally, human beings just tend not to be.

As a country, we discussed this important point during the "debate" over the Iraq War, too, but it's always good to have a refresher.

In fact, even the Iraq invasion wasn't the first time we've had to discuss the "not lumping everyone together for some bullshit reason" concept. You also mentioned the blacks fighting for their civil rights- amazingly, people made the very same types of arguments you're making RIGHT NOW in order to justify continuing the blacks' oppression. They're violent! They're uncouth! They're not good people- even, they were animals. All of them.

Of course they're all the same- right?

Fucking WRONG.

Just wrong, wrong, wrong.

And that's what you are. Just as wrong as them.