Originally posted by TrashMan
"Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims."
Simple racism and, more importantly, complete nonsense. Seeking to provide a pretext for bigotry against Muslims, whilst trying to escape criticism with the watery former part.
Originally posted by TrashMan
"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."
I believe that one was highlighted as being hypocritical; the speaker is Rush Limbaugh, who confessed to being addicted to painkillers - after previously calling for drug addicts to be locked up.
Originally posted by TrashMan
Civilized people – Muslims, Christians, and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator."
More bigotry. Defines 'civillization' as being caused by religion, inherently regards other religions or aetheism as uncivillized; removes any individual responsibility towards freedom and human dignity and instead requires blind obidience.
Again, complete bollocks. Human freedom and dignity comes from human inaction, not the inaction of some suppossed supreme diety and a crusty old text.
Originally posted by TrashMan
"Today's children... They're damned. They're gone."
Bigoted (again!) bias against
anyone who shares a different religious - or aetheistic - perspective. That's not just non Christians, but anyone who has a different
view of christianity to the quoted. Not to mention it's an excuse for treating all children like **** - 'they're gone', not worth the effort or caring for, safe to regard as human garbage.
If you look at it... if people believe 1, they'll treat all Muslims as prospective terrorists - so it's justifying racism. For 2, it's a hypocritical simplification which ignores the simple fact of having a need to prove guilt... it's almost an implicit justification for assuming guilt (although it's main purpose in the page is because it's hypocritical). For 3 & 4, it's an excuse to push personal moral values onto people - anyone - who disagrees, without any valid cause; that destroys tolerance and equality if followed as a rule.
