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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Bill who wrote (59290)5/23/2007 10:22:00 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (3) of 90947
 
Elroy, a quarter of young US muslims (presumably our citizens) think murdering innocent children in the name of Islam is justified.
If that doesn't disturb you, there's something wrong with you.

You are misquoting/distorting the survey question. It said 25% think suicide bombing is justified in some cases when Islam is being attacked. When you include the phrase "in some cases" or "in some circumstances" in the question, I think you will get a similar or higher percentage among ANY target group, Muslim or not. I explained the scenario here

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If you were the 20 year old in that horrible scenario, would you suicide bomb the family of the man that destroyed your innocent family? And your personal answer isn't what's important, it is what 25 out of 100 people in that horrible scenario would do. I think many would suicide bomb the enemy's kids for revenge, probably more than 25%.

It's not disturbing, it's plain old vanilla revenge.
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