RE: NPR fires Williams over Muslim fears ? GetReligion

You are misrepresenting what he said too.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Lance McLain
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 11:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] NPR fires Williams over Muslim fears » GetReligion


> This is frustrating.  We are engaged in a debate about Juan Williams
> and appear
> to be debating things he did not say.

Agreed.  That is why I posted on this thread.  After a day of posts,
none of them addressed specifically what Juan said.  But we tend to do
that a lot around here, debate at the periphery.

regards,
-Lance


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> On Behalf
> Of Bruce Geerdes
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 10:14 AM
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> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Another way of looking at it, how many Christians support terrorism
>> in
>> support of their cause? How many Muslims? This *is* something that
>> has
>> been polled, so you can look it up. Organized Christian violence is
>> the exception, not anywhere near the rule.
>
> You know, the more I think about this, the more I question it. There
> is definitely a sick minority of Muslims that support suicide bombers
> blowing up marketplaces indiscriminately (and I think Thom is right to
> say Christianity has its own share of sickos), but that's not going to
> be nearly the number of Muslims that are willing to accept civilian
> deaths as collateral damage. The latter Muslims, are they really so
> different than ourselves? How many American Christians are willing to
> accept civilian deaths as collateral damage when it comes to our
> bombs?
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