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An Astonishing Level of Humanisation
I've mentioned the difficulties of both promoting/censoring violent action on social media before and I can't really think of much ...
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"To claim that you are being discriminated against because you have lost your right to discriminate against others shows a gross lack o...
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Where Americans think Ukraine is These are the guesses of 2066 Americans as to where Ukraine is. Only 1 in 6 were correct. Presumably the...
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Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...
Too true :)
ReplyDeleteExcept if there's a Mormon as well. They wouldn't even enter the shop and drink hot chocolate in order to avoid the appearance of evil. ;)
ReplyDeleteGive it a few months. At least one of them will end up dead via a "friend" or relative of someone at that table. My money, what little I have, is on the Muslim being the catalyst.
ReplyDeleteDavid Lazarus What a clear prediction.
ReplyDeleteClear, but not, I suspect, even remotely correct :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html
However what I can't find is a simple set of statistics showing the homicide rate per capita for different religions.
They don't need to be terrorists. Just fundamentalists or extremists.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I'd prefer to find about about homicide rates rather than terrorism. I'd still be willing to bet that the rate of homicides committed by Muslims per capita is no higher than for any other religious group.
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