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08 Nov 2009 11:22 pm
Dissent Of The Day
A reader writes:
The reason elite opinion makers are reticent to too strongly
overplay the religion card with Nidal Hasan, in a way they maybe
weren't as reticent to do with George Tiller, is because Islam is a
minority faith and many of its practitioners might well be subject to
retaliatory violence in the wake of Fort Hood. To "apply the same
standard of inquiry and criticism to all religions" omits the important
fact that there are a great many people in this country who would NOT apply
the same standard to Hasan as they applied to George Tiller. They
might say that Tiller was a bad apple in an otherwise good faith, while
simultaneously saying Hasan is the apple that proves the badness of the
whole batch. To pretend otherwise is obvious and repugnant sophistry.
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