OnDiversity

[quote="Nine_Enigmas"]Proof, in a discussion about anything save mathematics, cannot be verbatim accomplished. "Period."

That said, the fundamental failure of your reasoning - insofar as I can determine - comes from a fallacy of identity. You are presuming that the group "Muslim" is a single identity, much as we might say "Joe" or "Jane."

You are taking an act - or even, lets say, a trend - and attributing it to a given concept when no such causal relation is evident. An instantiation of this, which is often (and rightly) decried, is the attribution of fringe lunatics to the main body of any demographic. "America hating" Democrats berating wounded troops. Crazed Republicans with nothing save a copious amount of crosses and a fire-n-brimstone religiosity. Flamboyantly effusive homosexuals.

In an effort to demonize and separate that which we cannot rationally divorce ourselves from en totem, we contrive differences that don't truly exist. There are good people and there are bad people. There are sane people and there are insane people. There are greedy people and there are giving people. The lines that can be drawn between human and human lay not in sand, religious texts or ephemeral philosophies - not even in the cosmetic difference of race and appearance. It lay entirely in the character of their being.[/quote]

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