From: Adam 

John Beckett wrote:
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message >
> Simple mathematics.  There are ca. 300 million Americans, and ca. 1,500
>> million Muslims.
>>
>> Given an equal occurence of nutcases, any give nutcase is five times more
>> likely to be a Muslim.
>
> This is a bit simplistic (well the statement is fine, but the implication
> that we are only seeing a "normal" number of islamist nutcases is
> simplistic).
>
> I'm very prepared to believe that islamists are fundamentally the same as
> neocons or whatever - any difference is just due to their environments.
> However, there is something in the islamist environment which leads many
> people to think that suicide bombing is a cool idea. Not just the
> nutcases, but their mothers and families as well.
>
> Accepting other cultures is great, but if you value intellectual integrity
> you have to acknowledge that some cultures are 300 years behind the rest
> of us.
>
> John
>
& the acknowledge that our culture maybe behind others.

Adam

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