<font face=Verdana,arial color=darkcyan size=-1>No one said all. Use of a plural does not imply all. You said "one." That is clearly wrong. Semantic games. Now you finally admit that there ARE 10-20,000 "vocally comitted." Seems that a plural makes sense. Please note that not a single Muslim vendor has been attacked here or anywhere, yet Jews on campuses have been attacked by Muslim students. Far too many examples to ignore. No sweeping generalization here except those you infer, yet were not implied. 20,000 or 100,000 fanatics trying to kill innocents supports the use of a plural "s." </font> -- The Philadelphia Talk Radio Politics and Opinion Forum

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Date Posted: 10:01:58 10/09/02 Wed
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: maxtnt02-468.phlpa.fast.net / 209.92.228.214
Subject: No one said all. Use of a plural does not imply all. You said "one." That is clearly wrong. Semantic games. Now you finally admit that there ARE 10-20,000 "vocally comitted." Seems that a plural makes sense. Please note that not a single Muslim vendor has been attacked here or anywhere, yet Jews on campuses have been attacked by Muslim students. Far too many examples to ignore. No sweeping generalization here except those you infer, yet were not implied. 20,000 or 100,000 fanatics trying to kill innocents supports the use of a plural "s."
In reply to: Richard 's message, "Are sweeping generalizations acceptable among intelligent people?" on 07:56:36 10/09/02 Wed

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Again, let's read EVERY word more carefully, please! -- Richard, 12:30:03 10/09/02 Wed (pcp01902285pcs.coatsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.83.144.23)

I said PERHAPS there are a certain amount of Muslim radicals.. The use of the word PERHAPS leaves room for doubt. PERHAPS precludes any definity. So that means there might only be only 5K, I wouldn't know. No one really knows, do they? The figure was put forth to illustrate this premise only: even if possibly 10, 20, 30K radical Muslims exist, it doesn't warrant the hysteria against Muslims in general, since there are over 1 billion of them. What is 30k into 1.2 billion expressed as a percentage? C'mon, you're the math teacher, you can tell us more quickly than it would take me to find a calculator. Condemning a whole denomination based on the actions of a possibly small percentage is ignorant. Let's not forget the innocent American Muslim citizens and houses of worship being verbally abused and attacked or following 9/11, in addition to Hindu business owners being mistaken for Muslims by ignorant swine looking for outlets for their hate. Let's also not forget to include that in this dialogue, in the interests of clarity, comprehensiveness, and appearing unbiased. This is turning into what happened in this country during WW1 and WW2, when many people tried to scapegoat other people of foreign descent only peripherally connected to the enemies of the day.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> I think you will find Jihadism far more pervasive than you think. -- SurveyGuy, 22:51:25 10/09/02 Wed (maxtnt03-50.phlpa.fast.net/209.92.230.50)

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> I must disagree with you! Mother Theresa's nuns and Homeschoolers are the most dangerous and evil people in the world! Muslims are the most pure, the most chaste, the most loving, compassionate, and peaceful! Even the Muslims who plan to slaughter United States citizens and Jews in their Jihad, are so sweet and holy! -- William, 02:45:41 10/10/02 Thu (cache-dq01.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.133)

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> But the most annoying at Johovah's Witnesses. -- SG, 10:02:57 10/10/02 Thu (vlan3proxy.ccp.cc.pa.us/63.121.99.36)

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