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Reader comment on item: Sudden Jihad Syndrome – It's Now Official
in response to reader comment: Unfortunately Muslim (or christian, or jew or hindu or whatever)

Submitted by Taj (United States), Feb 14, 2008 at 22:47

Humanist:

so, if "moderate" is the synonym for "non-violent", do you use the term for all religious adherents, or just in a biased manner applied to Islam..? Oh, and is an non-violent atheist also "moderate"? How about you, are you a moderate humanist?

Today, there was another school shooting - a darn near epidemic nowadays (and I am waiting for the nomenclature for this "syndrome", lol) - can we now say that most students in the US are moderates?

By the way, you'll forgive me if I don't by the "I know a lot of them" line regarding Muslims if you really, really assume that Muslims' normal lives equate to them not following Islam. I know a lot of them, and we all live normal lives devoutly adhering to Islam.

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