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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Jul 2015

    Why the ISIS threat is totally overblownhttp://theweek.com/articles/567674/why-isis-threat-totally-overblown …

    11:29 AM - 25 Jul 2015
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      1. D.J. Grothe‏ @DJGrothe 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        Food for thought. “@sapinker: Why the ISIS threat is totally overblown http://theweek.com/articles/567674/why-isis-threat-totally-overblown …”

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      1. Dr. Jens Foelloween  🎃‏ @fMRI_guy 27 Jul 2015
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        .@sapinker "Yeah sure, they reinstated slavery and destroy humanity's cultural heritage. But hey, they're really far away, am I right?"

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      2. Bessie Burgess‏ @TsubiAl 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker some of us are not that concerned about the threat to U.S. more concerned about the threat to people in the region #notoverblown

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      3. Dan Stewart‏ @danstew13 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @TsubiAl

        @TsubiAl @sapinker Damn Pinker and Mueller are killjoys, they want to throw cold water on everyone's fun.

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      4. Bessie Burgess‏ @TsubiAl 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @danstew13

        @danstew13 @sapinker It is a very good article. But just because Isis not sooo much of a threat to U.S. is irrelevant to Lebanon and Turkey

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      5. Dan Stewart‏ @danstew13 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @TsubiAl

        @TsubiAl @sapinker True enough. Too bad the US didn't just leave Bashar al-Assad & Saddam Hussein alone, we wouldn't have this problem.

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      6. Bessie Burgess‏ @TsubiAl 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @danstew13

        @danstew13 @sapinker Correct.

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      1. Daniel Hopper‏ @evohopp 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker A good point, but young Britons were not lining up to join the fun in Rwanda or Congo - not the direct threat that worries people

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      1. Marc‏ @Memetherapy 25 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker ISIS threat to America overblown... to region, no. Also, Islamic extremism still worrying on global scale. Pakistan worries me.

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      2. Gerry Gonzalez‏ @GerryGonzalo 25 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker the threat seems overblown from the safety of OSU. Let's present this article to the yazidis for an unbiased opinion

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      3. Dan Stewart‏ @danstew13 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @GerryGonzalo

        @GerryGonzalo @sapinker So u think the Mueller article has a bias? Doubt u read it --cuz if u had, u'd probably know what it's about.

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      4. Gerry Gonzalez‏ @GerryGonzalo 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @danstew13

        @danstew13 @sapinker it's about American perception of islamic violence. Islamism is still a problem regardless of it affecting Americans

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Dan Stewart‏ @danstew13 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @GerryGonzalo

        @GerryGonzalo @sapinker "Islamic problem" u describe 1) is of our own making 2) poses little risk to vast majority of Earth's inhabitants.

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      6. Gerry Gonzalez‏ @GerryGonzalo 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @danstew13

        @danstew13 @sapinker 1) why the Islam part then? Why not be http://called.Social  Justice Warriors against Imperialism.

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      7. Dan Stewart‏ @danstew13 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @GerryGonzalo

        @GerryGonzalo Too bad the US didn't just leave Bashar al-Assad & Saddam Hussein alone & we wouldn't have the ISIS scary threat, right Gerry?

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      8. Gerry Gonzalez‏ @GerryGonzalo 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @danstew13

        @danstew13 What are you talking about? Al qaeda, al Zarqawi, ibn al wahhab were all active pre American invasion

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      9. Dan Stewart‏ @danstew13 25 Jul 2015
        Replying to @GerryGonzalo

        @GerryGonzalo Really? In Iraq and Syria? Might wanna lay off the Kool-Aid, Gerry.

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      1. Dr. Jens Foelloween  🎃‏ @fMRI_guy 27 Jul 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        .@sapinker Wow, what a heartless article. The fact that we are not their primary target makes them a "totally overblown threat"?

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      1. Simon Cossar‏ @scossar 25 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker because the threat serves the interest of some people in positions of power in the west.

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      1. Luc Dockendorf‏ @LucDockendorf 25 Jul 2015
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        @sapinker do read @GeorgeMonbiot's brilliant take on this: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/21/islamic-extremism-cameron-struggle-generation … - bedroom slippers are a bigger threat than #Daesh in UK

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