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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I tried to avoid equating the two, only to have Hank put those words in my mouth. Did you not read those posts, or are you just trying to be irritating?
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Sometimes, when you ask a question, you do so because the answer is obvious. Here, I said CAIR equates blowing up passenger jets with killing an attack on a military installation that kills an innocent bystander -- because that is what their statement does. Then I said "do you?", knowing full well that the answer is "of course not," and thus hoping to point out the distinction between what you know to be right and what you posited as being an appropriate, positive statement by CAIR.
It was kind of like saying "what they are really saying is this. Is that really what you believe?" Presumably, you would not assume that I was accusing you of believing "that."
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What you are now saying is that it's not enough that they condemn the sort of terrorism that offends us the most -- they also have to publicly state that that kind of terrorism is special -- it's worse than everything else in the world. Where does this obligation come from?
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The obligation to be leaders of their communities. When they equate the bombing of passenger jets with attacks on military installations, they teach that the latter justifies the former.
And no -- they did not "condemn the sort of terrorism that offends us the most." They published an anemic statement that essentially reads "we think killing people is bad."
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Which is worse: 3,000 people dead on 9/11, or 400,000 people dead in Darfur? 9/11 troubles me more, because it's closer to home, but I don't think that everyone should have to feel the same way.
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Nor do I.
On the other hand, while Darfur troubles me a lot more than Abu Ghraib, as an American I feel it is my obligation to speak out against Abu Ghraib. And would feel that much more strongly if I were a leader of Americans.
