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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 24 Jan 2016

    Islam & violence: An empirical look. Terror, recent wars largely Islamist. But not in previous decades, & low crime.http://goo.gl/uUboMR 

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      1. Ambrose the Sot‏ @TongueOfAmbrose 24 Jan 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker This is a very flawed and misleading article. Women? Gays? Atheists? Religious minorities? Just another attempt at misdirection.

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      1. Ragnar Danneskjöld‏ @evan_carp 24 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @Slate What about sexual violence against women/children for example?

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      1. Ambrose the Sot‏ @TongueOfAmbrose 24 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Muslim are very non-violent as long as you're o.k. with Theocratic totalitarianism being applied universally.

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      1. Jean-Victor Côté‏ @JVCII 29 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker I would venture to say that the root cause of all this violence is fascism and that the notion of Kali Yuga explains events better

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      1. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 24 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Page won't load. I guess I'll just to continue concluding that Islam is not a religion of peace.

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      1. Noel Russell‏ @rainmar7 24 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker agreed. Sam Harris and Dan Carlin had an interesting discussion about this.http://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/shouldering-the-burden-of-history …

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      1. Jeremy 8-0 and paying the refs‏ @imjeremytho 24 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker extremism in anything is bad.

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      2. Bad Faith‏ @SeanCla98210839 24 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @Slate perhaps how could tell us all about the non violent Islamic conquests ,invasions,subjucation,dhimmitude and jizra then !

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      3. Richard Jones‏ @RBartleby 24 Jan 2016
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        @SeanCla98210839 @sapinker @Slate Perhaps you could cite the non violent Christian conquest & invasions.

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      4. Bad Faith‏ @SeanCla98210839 24 Jan 2016
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        @RBartleby @sapinker @Slate I'm fully aware of the barbaric Christian invasions , the article was about Moslems ! Without violence ,no islam

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      5. Richard Jones‏ @RBartleby 24 Jan 2016
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        @SeanCla98210839 @sapinker @Slate Agreed that Islam is badly in need of an Enlightenment Christianity already had. Both spread by violence.

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      6. Bad Faith‏ @SeanCla98210839 24 Jan 2016
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        @RBartleby @sapinker @Slate nothing in recorded history compares to the barbarity,death,slavery,invasions,occupations of the spread of islam

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      7. Richard Jones‏ @RBartleby 24 Jan 2016
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        @SeanCla98210839 @sapinker @Slate A nominally Christian nation committed Holocaust; slavery was common Christian nations. Yes, Islam bad.

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      8. Bad Faith‏ @SeanCla98210839 24 Jan 2016
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        @RBartleby @sapinker @Slate you are talking about the past ! I'm talking about now. Slavery was only abolished in Arab states in the 1960s!

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      9. Richard Jones‏ @RBartleby 24 Jan 2016
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        @SeanCla98210839 @sapinker @Slate I'm aware history is about the past, and agree Islamism is evil. Thanks.

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      1. Martin Konvička‏ @konva333 Feb 24
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        cit: "The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society, the lower the homicide rate." well - the faith enslaves them, and nobody kills a slave without reason

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      1. Peregrine Touchwood‏ @MrTouchwood 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker crime in those "peaceful" Muslim societies is cultural/systematic/unreported

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      1. Elliot Cohen‏ @Elliotcohenj 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @Slate 30 yrs ago the world haven't the internet. Few were able to compares & know what is going on worldwide in real time

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