# Ground Zero Imam -- How moderate does he sound?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ground-zero-imam-how-moderate-does-he-sound/544425>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 25, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ground-zero-imam-how-moderate-does-he-sound/544425 "2010-06-25T00:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ground-zero-imam-how-moderate-does-he-sound/544425/101 "2010-06-27T05:01:03Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Hardly. You characterized them as nonhuman, when you claimed that they don’t act or feel like humans do.

> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> I did no such thing; it’s a direct implication of what you said.

This sort of casuistry is stupid. It is also a hijack to this (admittedly worthless) thread.

Drop it.  
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ground-zero-imam-how-moderate-does-he-sound/544425/102 "2010-06-27T05:48:05Z")

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> [@Valteron](#):
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> So you are admitting he may entertain inlammatory, radical opinions and wants to avoid being pulled into an argument where they might come out in an unguarded moment, then?
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> It seems to me that if someone does not entertain certain ideas, there is zero danger of them coming out in an unguarded moment of heated argument, after all.
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> For example, no matter how mad you make me in an argument, I would NEVER, EVER say “The Klan is right, lynch the n\_\_\_\_\_s.” Even if I were foaming at the mouth you would never make me say that because I do not believe it.
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> So what is the Imam afraid will slip out if he gets into an argument, pray tell?

Everything he doesn’t say condems him even more than what he DOES say. I gotta remember that one.

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