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@rezaaslan how about criticizing basic tenets of the entire faith that are absurd? do muslims cherry pick their beliefs like christians?

@zSweetEnlow Everyone cherry picks their beliefs. EVERYONE!

@rezaaslan I've often found it puzzling how so many intelligent so-called leftists (Hitch included) often adopted hawkish talking points.

@kristacole17 @rezaaslan I say that because Hitch, for his foibles, was quite smart, as his Harris and they generally agree w/ left values

@rezaaslan Seriously, how many times must Harris say not all Muslims are extremists?

@rjt686 @rezaaslan Prolly until he stops saying all the other things that undermine that view. Gives w/ left hand, takes w/ right.

@MonaHol Noting Pew polls is bigotry? Wishing only a few Muslims support death for apostates and adulterers doesn't make it so. @rezaaslan

@rjt686 @MonaHol @rezaaslan which pew poll is that?

@2Shrill2Nasty http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/01/64-percent-of-muslims-in-egypt-and-pakistan-support-the-death-penalty-for-leaving-islam/ …

@rjt686 How wld yu feel if I polled Xtians in Uganda and Jamaica on their view of imprisoning LGBT and then said it represents all Xtians

@2Shrill2Nasty I would note the undeniable Biblical teachings which condemn homosexuality play a huge part in persecution of gays in Uganda.

@rjt686 exactly

@rezaaslan @doremusj If all theists are guilty by association for religious extremists, does that make atheists guilty of Stalin's purges?

@Chesire11 No, Stalin was guilty, the atheists were enablers. @rezaaslan

@doremusj @rezaaslan A codependent relationship...if only Dr. Phil had been there, millions coud have been saved.

@rezaaslan He never said that. Just that it's a higher percentage of Muslims who are at least sympathetic to xtreme views than other faiths

@TheBigMokeski @rezaaslan Wat percentage of Jews are sympathetic to Israel's policy of periodically turning Gaza into a crater? Id say a lot

@2Shrill2Nasty @rezaaslan Maybe in Israel perhaps.

@TheBigMokeski @rezaaslan Nope. Diaspora too

@2Shrill2Nasty @rezaaslan Not in US, It's the evangelicals who jock hardest for Israel here.

@TheBigMokeski @rezaaslan I come from a mostly liberal Jewish family in America. They all supported bombing Gaza into the stoneage