"Making Sense of Gaza: A Conversation Between Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan"http://bit.ly/1ramjTV
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@SamHarrisOrg doesn't that say something about the power of the doctrine when so many people for so long are able to not take it seriously? -
@elZindiq Please, your minimizing how many take it seriously. But even if it were only 10 percent. That 150 million potential jihadists.
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@samharrisorg @elzindiq The Torah is as prescriptively brutal as the Koran. The number of Jews who advocate it as the rule of law is zero. -
@samharrisorg @elzindiq The alarming rise of the Islamic State — and its threat to the world — are no longer hypotheticals. -
@gingi0 ISIL is brutal and scary but not a threat to the world. It is surrounded by powerful armies that are hostile to it. -
@elzindiq That's naive. ISIL is more powerful than Al Qaeda, whose terror reached 6 continents. It has sympathizers across the globe.
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@gingi0 I would argue AQ threat was also exaggerated. Used to justify Iraq invasion that further fueled Islamist threat. See a trend here? -
@elZindiq Absolutely. It's a vicious cycle. Does it diminish the brutal atrocities committed by these fundamentalist groups? Hardly.
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Yeah, apathy is not the same as moderation.
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@AtheistStoned@SamHarrisOrg regardless if your problem is w/ an ideology, wouldn't you engage the followers that "don't take it seriously"? -
Why? @elZindiq
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@AtheistStoned conflict resolution 101 - work with the side that's more flexible? -
They may be more flexible, but no one's fighting with them. Remember? They're apathetic. @elZindiq
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@AtheistStoned that's an assumption that betrays a glaring ignorance of the contemporary politics of the Greater ME -
Where in the ME is it safe for Jews, or atheists, or homosexuals, or women? @elZindiq
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@AtheistStoned @elZindiq Turkey? I just read that if Isil threatens Turkey then NATO would get involved. - 7 more replies
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