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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Frankly, I think I'm done with this conversation. Your tendency to overlook the central theme behind my argument in favor of an approach that completely compartmentalizes a section of a conversation into something so narrow that you can say, "I don't think that that's right," makes it so that I don't really want to bother.
I've given you an example of something I thought was pretty similar. Instead of talking about it, you decided to seize on one part of one post in our discussion to try to focus your argument on how that single example (Egypt) couldn't relate to anything else. Whatever.
If you want to argue that there is no moderate muslim support for the idea that muslims (or anyone else) should be punished for blasphemy and that that support isn't the basis for (i) laws in many places (from Afghanistan to Egypt to Pakistan to Indonesia to wherever) criminalizing it (whether you base your argument on what the "muslims you know" think or not) and (ii) the attitude that it is okay to go out and murder someone who commits it in other places--even if carried out by crazies, then I'm done with the conversation. Pointing out that this idea is common in muslim communities the world over isn't even controversial.
Hell, maybe we just have a different idea of what a moderate muslim is.
I have conceded that there are many problems that have led to extremist thought. I have not once said that you or anyone else is wrong about the many problems that create extremists. I find it highly annoying that you refuse to acknowledge the possibility of something other than your own limited opinion, even when I have posted articles (today and the last time we discussed this) in which actual muslims say the very same things I am saying. I'd post more, but what's the fucking point?
So let's be done with this.
TM
