Overgeneralizations
Reader comment on item: Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Promote Radical Islam
in response to reader comment: muslim or not muslim

Submitted by Generalizations (United States), Oct 14, 2007 at 00:53

"either you're a muslim or you are not a muslim. there is no middle ground."

Yes, I will straighten you out. Islam, as a religion, political system, indeed, a civilization has existed for a millenia and a half, across most of the globe in some form or another. Thus it has taken many forms. Some of these forms are deeply problematic and must be addressed. The first step to solving a problem is to correctly define the problem. Your deeply ignorant, and frankly, offensive, generalization does not correctly define the problem, and thus is not a sufficient basis on which to form solutions.

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