So Fareed Zakaria is an idiot and not a bigot? An email exchange from a fb friend (He can identify himself if he wishes so for sending this lovely quote given below to me) Sister Dalia Mogahed just shared a PEW research finding. Empirical study after study finds the variable that most explains terrorism is military occupation. This isnt apologetics for murder, its just science. So when Fareed Zakaria accurately states that In 2013, of the top 10 groups that perpetrated terrorist attacks, seven were Muslim, but then concludes Islam has a problem hes not being a bigot. Hes being a sloppy social scientist. Has he considered the fact, though its probably irrelevant, that 100% of the countries on the receiving end of US military power (invasions, drones) in recent memory have also been Muslim? Could that possibly be a factor as or more powerful than a shared faith? A faith whose scholars have uniformly condemned terrorism and whose public are at least as likely to do the same as people of other faiths? gallup/poll/157067/views-violence.aspx
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:00:34 +0000
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