It appears the @Guardian & @ggreenwald got monumentously trolled by @GodfreyElfwick who wrote that Guardian piece to satirise..the Guardian! https://twitter.com/godfreyelfwick/status/803687334482939904 …
If you disagree that @SamHarrisOrg @MaajidNawaz et al take 1st approach & @ggreenwald et al 2nd, can you say why?
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how many 100,000s of people do you estimate 'et al' refers to in both instances?
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I make no such claim. ??? Are we at cross purposes?
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Referring to ppl who argue Islam causes problems & we must be able to say so & ppl who argue that doing so inspires racism.
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based on what I know of racism yes, I would say emphasising incompatibility between Islam and liberalism beyond what evidence ..
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I was explaining the two positions I was referring to.
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there was a second part to that
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Yes. But my tweet was responding to yours asking who I meant by 'et al.' You have moved into partial defence of position B?
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Reasonable conversations can & must be had abt how to balance necessary criticism of Islam & counter anti-Muslim bigotry.
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